Lighted Fools Theatre Company

In 1956, when Philip Larkin was appointed Librarian at Hull University, he was close to becoming one of the finest and best-loved poets in post-war Britain. However, contrary to outward appearances, this shy, bespectacled jazz lover was leading a very complicated love life.

Over the next thirty years he was involved in simultaneous relationships with three very different women – bohemian academic Monica, innocent and devoutly Catholic junior librarian Maeve and practical, down-to-earth secretary Betty.

These tangled and hidden affairs were to dominate the rest of Larkin's life in a web of shifting emotions. Ben Brown's uplifting, funny and touching play – punctuated with Larkin's own words and his much-loved jazz – explores the complex man behind the poetry.