How do you know if you’re with the love of your life?
Love Life is a cast-led ensemble show with real heart that explores five surprising and overlapping love stories set in the same town, each story looking at a different relationship.
The stories are visceral and life affirming, with a pace and urgency to them. More than anything they are universal – the audience will feel as torn by the situations as the characters do – provoking strong responses: did the characters do the right thing in the end, what would you have done?
Writer and director Dominic Savage’s work is distinctive and authored. Although he does work to a loose script, the pieces themselves are semi-improvised.
Dominic has won numerous awards for his work, including two BAFTAs for best single drama and the Edinburgh International Film Award for best new feature.
Nick (David Tennant) is happily married: his wife and children are everything to him, but when his first love appears out of the blue he suddenly starts to question everything. Can they go back to what they had all those years ago?
Holly (Billie Piper) is a young unfulfilled teacher who is in an unsatisfactory relationship with a married man. She suddenly finds herself drawn to one of her female pupils. What would happen if she were to act on these feelings?
Sandra (Jane Horrocks) is facing the fact that her marriage has become stale over the years – when her youngest child leaves home she realises that her husband have little to say to one another, and besides this, he’s also having an affair.Then she meets someone who couldn't be more different from her, but somehow makes her feel alive again – can she throw everything up for this younger man?
There’s nothing really wrong with Paul’s (Ashley Walters) life – he’s got a lovely wife, a baby boy, a nice house… it’s just a bit ordinary, a bit lacking in excitement. Then he catches sight of a girl on his way to work and feels an instant attraction – could this really be love at first sight? What happens when you act on this?
Adrian (David Morrissey) is a divorcee who has been searching for true love. It's not been easy but he's not giving up. Still a romantic, he believes in it whole-heartedly, despite his failed marriage. Just when he thinks he might have found it, he finds that he is the victim of another obsessive love that threatens to scupper his future.
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