We Love and Then We Drown

Name: We Love and Then We Drown
Start: 2026-05-17T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-10-18T17:30:00+01:00
Location: John Lyon’s Theatre

Schedule

Sun, 17 May, 2026 at 07:30 pm to Sun, 18 Oct, 2026 at 05:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

John Lyon’s Theatre | London, EN

A new short play by Ruth Gilligan, directed by Adam Radford
About this Event

We Love and Then We Drown asks urgent questions about how we continue to live – and love – in a time of crisis. Through intertwined vignettes, the play explores themes of motherhood, empirical fact versus innate love, the fundamental resilience of memory and, ultimately, hope.

This play was first presented in workshop performances at City Lit in January 2026, then had 6 performances in the Camden Fringe in August before transferring to Edinburgh Fringe for a two-week run at the Lime Studio. We Love and Then We Drown returns to its original home at City Lit as part of Bloomsbury Festival 2026.

Content warnings: this play includes some adult scenes and language, and loud music and sounds effects at times.

Cast: Jacquie Cassidy, Clare Catford, Steff Knappe, Louisa Amapola, Carla Dourado, Robert Thomas