Guess How Much I Love You? review – shattering portrait of a pregnancy in crisis
Royal Court theatre, London Rosie Sheehy and Robert Aramayo excel as a couple reeling from an ultrasound scan in Luke Norris’s extraordinary playThe trigger warnings are handed to us on...
By Arifa Akbar · The Guardian Culture
Royal Court theatre, London Rosie Sheehy and Robert Aramayo excel as a couple reeling from an ultrasound scan in Luke Norris’s extraordinary play The trigger warnings are handed to us on a card as we file into the auditorium. For good reason: Luke Norris ’s play is a harrowing portrait of pregnancy and grief, plumbing the depths of sorrow within a marriage. But it is not only that. It is funny and profound, intense without ever becoming overwrought. The play follows a thirtysomething couple who remain unnamed, just like their baby, as they navigate loss. Their relationship seems to feed off a sparky kind of contrariness. She ( Rosie Sheehy ) is clever, ferocious, always up for a fight. He ( Robert Aramayo ) is gentler, using humour – and poetry, even in the face of her jeering – to soften her edges. Their dialogue sounds like a contact sport – ricocheting, fast and furious – while they wait for the results of their 20-week ultrasound scan in the first scene. At Royal Court theatre, London , until 21 February Continue reading...