Why do we fall in love? Even harder, how do we keep loving across the years? A horrible accident starts one obsessive love story and raises fault lines in three others.

Ian McEwan’s celebrated novel is dramatised by Kate Clanchy.

Starring Blake Ritson, Hattie Morahan and Emma Cunniffe.

First published in 1997, Enduring Love resonates still, addressing urgent themes of loneliness, obsession, and the ways that trauma can burn a path through relationships.

In a famously gripping opening in the Chiltern Hills, a terrified child, alone in the basket of an air balloon, is being dragged away by a gusty wind. Joe and Clarissa abandon their romantic picnic and join a doctor and an unstable loner called Dylan in trying to help. The consequences are unimaginable.

Two distinguished actors, Blake Ritson and Hattie Morahan, a couple themselves, play the couple at the heart of this compulsive and haunting drama about love, guilt, grief and forgiveness.

Cast:
Joe ….. Blake Ritson
Clarissa ….. Hattie Morahan
Dylan ….. Cassian Bilton
Rachael ….. Emma Cunniffe
Luke ….. Gunnar Cauthery
Leo ….. Zane Siddiqui

With specially composed music by Katharine Seaton, performed by Katharine Seaton (piano) and Constance Froment (flute).

Production Co-ordinator: Sarah Tombling
Sound Designer: David Thomas

Director / Producer: Amber Barnfather

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