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One Day When We Were Young

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  1w, 1m

Nick Payne

Leonard and Violet, young, restless and in love, spend their first night together knowing it may also be their last. It's 1942 and, in a hotel room in Bath, they dream of their future while preparing for Leonard's departure to the war. But the bombs begin

One Day When We Were Young

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“I am scared, that once this war is over, and I am sent home, that you won’t be here. That you will have left.”

Leonard and Violet, young, restless and in love, spend their first night together knowing it may also be their last. It’s 1942 and, in a hotel room  in Bath, they dream of their future while preparing for Leonard’s departure to the war. But the bombs begin to fall and their world will never be  the same again. In the year 2002, the couple look back at what might  have been. Examining the impact of the Second World War on two ordinary lives and a love that spans more than sixty years.


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"Payne's dialogue strikes a sentimental note..." - The Guardian 

"... bittersweet tale of love and loss." - The Stage 

"An intimate epic..." - TimeOut 

"intelligent, beautiful, heartfelt..." - Voice 

"This play is truly a masterpiece." - Voice 

"Payne's writing is insightful, clever, and incredibly witty..." - Voice 

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Nick Payne

Nick Payne
Nick Payne’s plays include IF THERE IS I HAVEN’T FOUND IT YET (Bush Theatre and Roundabout Theatre Company, New York), WANDERLUST (Royal Court Theatre), Sophocles' ELECTRA (Gate Theatre), ONE DAY WHEN WE WERE YOUNG (Paines Plough/Sheffield Theatres and Shoreditch Town Hall), ...
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