Lost Atoms
Published on 2. October 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-1-83904-510-3 (ISBN)
Description
'Love's strange, isn't it? You think you're going to feel it in your chest, or your gut. But I swear, I can feel it in every cell.'
Jess and Robbie. A chance meeting, some disastrous dates, an extraordinary transformative love. It's the stuff of fairy tales. Or is it?
Lost Atoms is a wild ride through a life-changing relationship, or Jess and Robbie's recollection of it. Together they scale the soaring highs and crushing lows, relive the beats of connection, the moments of loss. But are their stories the same? And can their memories be trusted?
By turns hilarious and devastating, Anna Jordan's Lost Atoms tells a timeless story which explores how love shapes our lives and how we remember it. It was commissioned and produced by Frantic Assembly in 2025, as their thirtieth-anniversary production, in a co-production with Curve, Mayflower Southampton and Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, and directed by Frantic Assembly's Artistic Director Scott Graham.
Jess and Robbie. A chance meeting, some disastrous dates, an extraordinary transformative love. It's the stuff of fairy tales. Or is it?
Lost Atoms is a wild ride through a life-changing relationship, or Jess and Robbie's recollection of it. Together they scale the soaring highs and crushing lows, relive the beats of connection, the moments of loss. But are their stories the same? And can their memories be trusted?
By turns hilarious and devastating, Anna Jordan's Lost Atoms tells a timeless story which explores how love shapes our lives and how we remember it. It was commissioned and produced by Frantic Assembly in 2025, as their thirtieth-anniversary production, in a co-production with Curve, Mayflower Southampton and Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, and directed by Frantic Assembly's Artistic Director Scott Graham.
Reviews / Votes
'Gorgeously authentic scenes of sexual intimacy... ingenious... brings all the lust and mess of a relationship to life' * The Times * 'Authentic and incredibly moving... Jordan has written a very modern romance... playful, sweet, sexy and vulnerable' * Guardian * 'A sublime piece of theatre... remarkable... powerfully poignant and also very funny' * Whatsonstage * 'A tender, visceral exploration of falling in and out of love' * The Stage * 'A rollercoaster of soaring highs and devastating lows... utterly truthful and deeply poetic' * Theatre & Tonic * 'Profoundly moving' * British Theatre Guide *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 125 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
162 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83904-510-3 (9781839045103)
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Anna Jordan's other plays include Yen, which won the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, Pop Music for Paines Plough, and The Unreturning for Frantic Assembly, which toured to critical acclaim in 2018. Her writing for television includes Succession, Killing Eve and One Day.