Meadows Award winner, Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026
Come Back Home
A solo performance by Fadi Murad
About the show
Come Back Home explores ongoing grief and how the past continues to inhabit the present. It moves through self-criticism, fear and the unknown, through absurdity and the logic of the subconscious.
Through text, video and sound, Palestinian artist Fadi Murad questions how loss shapes ambition, identity and the idea of return through personal experience and memory. The performance shifts between humour and catharsis, exposing doubt, ego, tenderness and contradiction, while asking what it means to carry home within you.
Where it began
Fadi Murad made Come Back Home as his graduation piece at the School of Visual Theatre in Jerusalem, where it was performed in July 2023.
Fadi’s mother died in a car accident in 2009, when he was nine. The show draws on that loss and on life in Jerusalem. Since 2023 it has been performed in Edinburgh, at Théâtre L’Aire Libre in France during a Sawa Sawa residency, and for the whole of the 2026 Fringe at Summerhall.
Reviews
From the run at Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 6 to 31 August 2026.
“Playful, eerie and surprising, Come Back Home is a séance for the memories – both personal and collective – that feel the most impossible to hold.”
“Come Back Home is structured with the free-ranging imagination of a poet, an impressionistic collage that resists straightforward interpretation.”
“Come Back Home is a must-see at this year’s fringe for me, for the importance it carries in the world today and for its brilliant writing, staging and performance.”
“Dream-like meditation”
“…a touching and quietly powerful work, and Murad is adept at drawing you in, posing questions, offering tantalising morsels.”
“…Come Back Home is an intimate and affecting exploration of grief, memory, identity and home.”
“This is an important and thoughtful piece of work, with a fascinating perspective and a performer who clearly has much to say.”
“It’s very clever but also shocking”
Watch
From Fadi Murad’s YouTube channel.
Images
Performance history
- July 2023
School of Visual Theatre, Jerusalem
Performed as Fadi’s graduation piece.
- August 2025
Welcome to the Fringe, Palestine, Edinburgh
A scratch performance.
- 21 November 2025
Théâtre L’Aire Libre, Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande
During Festival TNB, at the end of a Sawa Sawa residency with Institut français de Jérusalem.
- 6 to 31 August 2026
Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe
A full Fringe run in the Anatomy Lecture Theatre, supported by the Meadows Award.
Credits
- Created by
- Fadi Murad
- Music
- Said Murad
- Sound
- Kareem Al Sawalmeh
- Lighting
- Rotem Levi, Netanel Kafka
- Outside eye
- Nava Frenkel
- Production
- Aviv Souter
As listed by Théâtre L’Aire Libre, 2025.
Programme Come Back Home
Come Back Home tours as a solo show. For availability, fees, technical requirements, press images and the full credits, write to Fadi.