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My Romantic History

My Romantic HistoryPhoto: John Johnston

DC Cooper's acclaimed play returns to Scotland in a new production

"If you haven't met someone by the time you graduate, you're going to marry someone from your work. It's that simple. Do you know how they get animals to breed in captivity? They put them in the same cage." Read more …

Tom's been head hunted for a new job. He owns three suits, a modest amount of kitchen equipment and an assortment of Japanese action figures. If you saw him on the street, you'd never imagine that he's still in love with his childhood sweetheart.

Amy's got a career, a Fiat Punto and a flat full of stuff. To all intents and purposes she's a fully-functioning grown up. But she's never got over her first love, and nobody she meets stands a chance of matching up to his memory.

When Tom and Amy get together after a boozy office party, it seems like they might be able to make a go of it. But soon the ghosts of relationships past begin to interfere with the here and now. And getting over our romantic histories is easier said than done.

More information on this production is available at www.borderlinetheatre.co.uk.

The critical consensus

A far subtler evocation of the dating and mating game than Jackson’s original template.

****(*)Neil Cooper, The Herald, 15/09/2011

Spiced with hilarious observational detail and, in Levick's production, an anthropologist's eye for body language, it is a comedy of bad manners and embarrassments.

****(*)Mark Fisher, The Guardian, 14/09/2011

Revived...in a fine production by Jemima Levick.

****(*)Joyce McMillan, 15/09/2011

It is the performances which refresh the script – the lines haven’t lost their edge or wit – but the timing and precision with which they are executed defines the characters.

*****Emma, TV Bomb, 16/09/2011

Jemima Levick’s production is fluent and swift, as befits a show which certainly requires to keep up the pace, if only to accommodate the flurry of one-liners which might otherwise derail a character.

Robert Dawson Scott, STV, 16/09/2011

A tip top production that brings out the best in all concerned.

Thom Dibdin, The Stage, 19/09/2011


Features about My Romantic History

I'm ready for the big time!

Brian Beacom, Evening Times, 07/09/2011

Borderline tours My Romanctic History

Keith Paterson, WhatsOnStage.com, 09/09/2011

Where and when?

Tron Theatre, Glasgow from Friday September 9, 2011, until Saturday September 24, 2011. More info: www.tron.co.uk

On Tour, from Tuesday September 27, 2011, until Saturday October 15, 2011.

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