"No one said you had to move out," Louise says. She, a busy doctor, has cheated, and Tom, an unemployed music critic, has moved out. Now the two of them go to marriage counseling every week and always meet beforehand in a pub. He orders beer, she orders white wine. This is how they prepare for the sessions, discussing whether their marriage is more like a marathon or just a failed 50-meter sprint, and whether Louise's affair should be classified as a mistake or multiple mistakes. Questions upon questions, which are handled with sarcastic humor and sharp wit in a pulsating exchange more or less successfully. But when Tom admits to voting for Brexit out of a protest, Louise is beside herself. Could it be that their children and a shared interest in crossword puzzles are the only remaining commonalities? The piece emotionally fluctuates between longing attempts at reconciliation, defensiveness, comedy, and the seriousness of life. The future of their relationship is uncertain, each meeting seems like a new beginning...
Nick Hornby has been one of Britain's cult authors since his debut "High Fidelity". He prefers to write about music, books, sports, and neurotic heroes. Many of his bestsellers like "High Fidelity", "About a Boy", or "A Long Way Down" have been adapted into films with prominent casts (including Pierce Brosnan, Toni Colette, and Hugh Grant). "State of the Union" aired as a series with twenty ten-minute episodes until 2022 on ARD. Nick Hornby lives in London.
Now the material has been released for the stage, and thankfully, we have received permission from Rowohlt-Verlag to dramatize the book for the stage. Similarly, we successfully played "Das Leben des Vernon Subutex" in three parts in 2019 after receiving permission. So what was more natural than timidly asking the two actors from Subutex if they would... They enthusiastically agreed.
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