State of the Union - People's Theater Districts

How much fun is a marriage crisis? A lot! At least when cult author Nick Hornby tells the story. Quickly and pointedly, he lets Tom and Louise – he’s a music critic, she’s a doctor – navigate the everyday madness of their life together. After a dry spell in their sex life and an affair, they try to salvage what they can in couples therapy. However, we don’t witness them in the sessions themselves, but rather in the moments in between, both spatially and temporally: During a morale-boosting drink at the pub across the street, they quickly outline the topics to be discussed. In clever and fast-paced dialogues, fundamental questions about human love life come up quite casually. And suddenly, things are brought up that anyone with relationship experience might occasionally think – but would certainly never say out loud.