Kuwaiti theatrical drama serves as an important medium for the analysis of the Kuwaiti ‘national’ narrative since it reveals how the government, in a given historical period, promoted specific, State driven, accounts to its general public. Aware of the social and political influence that theatre could have on its vast audience, the newly found Ministry of Information, known then as Al-Irshad Wa Al-Anbaa, invited a large group of Arab theatrical experts including Egyptian Zaki Thulaimat to put together many performances aimed to advance nationalistic, but also a Pan Arabist perspective. The State took on the role of the educator and under this rubric produced plays with the themes of tawwiyya (discipline), spreading social and ethical instructions on how one must live in a modernizing environment. In this process, the State portrayed images of the ideal modern Kuwaiti home, it’s nuclear family and the role of the model wife, husband, and child, each with his established gendered, normative, and prescribed role. The paper will trace the evolution of this theatrical narrative produced in and about Kuwait, its neighborhoods, and family life from 1940-1960. In so doing, the paper explores ‘national storylines’ promoted by State sponsored productions and the ways in which their enactments changed over the course of twenty formative years.