Love’s strange, isn’t it? You think you’re going to feel it in your chest, or your gut. But I swear, I can feel it in every cell.
Jess and Robbie. A chance meeting, some disastrous dates, an extraordinary transformative love. It’s the stuff of fairy tales. Or is it?
Lost Atoms is a wild ride through a life-changing relationship, or Jess and Robbie’s recollection of it. Together they scale the soaring highs and crushing lows, relive the beats of connection, the moments of loss. But are their stories the same? And can their memories be trusted?
Written by Anna Jordan (The Unreturning, Yen and TV’s Succession and One Day), Lost Atoms is by turns funny and heartbreaking; a timeless story which explores how love shapes our lives and how we remember it. Two people plunge deep into their shared pasts and propel themselves into multiple futures, risking it all.
Come fall in love.
Following sell-out tours of Othello and Metamorphosis Frantic Assembly return to the Lyric Hammersmith with a brand-new play for their 30th Anniversary.
Cast
Robbie Joe Layton
Jess Hannah Sinclair Robinson
Creatives
Written by Anna Jordan
Directed by Scott Graham
Se Design by Andrzej Goulding
Lighting Design by Simisola Majekodunmi
Sound Design by Carolyn Downing
Music Supervision by Julie Blake
Costume Design by Alice McNicholas
Fight and Intimacy Direction by Bethan Clark
Commissioned and produced by Frantic Assembly, in a co-production with Curve, Mayflower Southampton and Lyric Hammersmith Theatre.