Can't Forget About You

Stevie, 25, is a mess. His girlfriend left him with a short pink dressing gown and a broken heart. He can’t get Ciara out of his head. So nobody is more surprised than Stevie when an in-depth conversation with 49 year-old Glaswegian widow Martha at a coffee shop, leads to the pair ending up in bed together and – perhaps – a chance at love…? Read more …

There’s only one problem, Stevie’s family. His ultra-conservative mother and fanatical Ulster-scots speaking sister would be seen dead before they let their Stevie end up with ‘someone like that’.

The critical consensus

Can't Forget About You might have sprung from good intentions, but there is very little good about it. The sooner it's forgotten, the better.

(*) (*) (*) Michael Cox, Across the Arts, 04/07/2015

A raucous comedy with moments of insight and political and social wisdom.

(*) Rachael Hickman, The Public Reviews, 04/07/2015

Can't Forget About You doesn't hit hard enough, and quickly slumps into post-coital lethargy, resorting to trite farce.

(*) (*) Lorna Irvine, The List, 06/07/2015

The overall effect is like a cross between Marie Jones and Mrs Brown’s Boys, with a touch of Sex And The City thrown in: hilarious, direct, and sometimes unsettling.

(*) Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 05/07/2015

There's a deceptive depth to Conleth Hill's no-frills co-production.

(*) (*) Neil Cooper, Coffee-Table Notes, 05/07/2015

We don’t see enough of the central couple’s chemistry to make us fall in love with them ourselves, and the story has a rather too easy happy ending, but there’s plenty of great observational comedy along the way.

(*) (*) Mark Fisher, The Guardian, 09/07/2015

While there are few surprises in the play’s dénouement, the likeable Dunbar and Rodgers make us root for Martha and Stevie throughout.

(*) (*) Allan Radcliffe, 09/07/2015