The Life We Lived

Award-winning playwright Matt Fox returns to The King's Arms, Salford with The Life We Lived, a new dramatic love story set in a funeral parlour, for the Salford leg of a UK Spring tour.

“A thoroughly absorbing play with finely drawn characters and a thoughtful look at some of the taboo issues around death - with some nice unexpected twists!” ???? FemaleArts

The Life We Lived follows the relationship between a funeral director and the woman who will eventually become a corpse in his parlour. An old fashioned love story in many ways; but with a strong helping of gallows humour. Two people find themselves together and live out a life of joy and tragedy, which will speak to the romantic and cynic in all of us.

The Life We Lived examines life and death, love and hate, potential and disappointment, through a gripping story which is both real and imagined. The gift that life brings, as well as the certainty that this gift will be wasted, are the crux of a piece which juggles morbid humour and gut wrenching poignancy.