Opening the Royal Court Theatre's landmark 70th anniversary season is the world premiere of Guess How Much I Love You, a new play by Luke Norris (Goodbye to All That). Set within the confines of a hospital room, the drama centres on a couple forced to confront impossible decisions as their shared future hangs in the balance, exploring what lifelong love demands when everything is at stake.

The production features Olivier Award nominee Rosie Sheehy (Machinal) and BIFA nominee Robert Aramayo (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power), alongside Lena Kaur (Expendable, Hollyoaks), under the direction of Jeremy Herrin (People, Places and Things). 

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The play launches the Royal Court's anniversary season with an intimate, high-stakes opening that critics have been quick to take notice of.

Guess How Much I Love You? Critic Reviews

"This is a tear-jerker with 100% heart, 0% sentimentality. What a start to the Royal Court's 70th anniversary season. What an emotional tour de force." - The Guardian

"Guess How Much I Love You captures this with raw authenticity, keeping you engaged from start to end and revealing deep truths along the way." - The Spy in the Stalls

"Guess How Much I Love You? tackles an important and painful subject with bravery, and its intentions are sincere. However, to fully feel the devastating weight of such a story, we need to understand, if not love, the people living through it. This production comes close, but its relentless conflict too often keeps the audience at a frustrated distance." - Theatre Weekly

"I can't exactly call the play a pleasure to watch but it's definitely a privilege. Sheehy, from the extraordinary seedbed of thespian talent that is Port Talbot, is easily one of the finest stage actors of her generation. Aramayo has primarily been feted on screen in Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones and the recent indie smash I Swear but proves himself an excellent live foil to Sheehy." - The Standard

"Guess How Much I Love You? is a harrowing piece that digs unflinchingly into the ugliness of grief and guilt. Real, raw and shockingly honest, Luke Norris has captured some frightening glimmers of truth." - West End Best Friend

"Ultimately, Guess How Much I Love You? is a production that demands conversation. It refuses the lazy comforts of conflict-as-drama and instead models what living looks like when life withdraws the easy options. It's a test of empathy that rejects the smug safety of "that would never happen to me." And it leaves you with difficult, necessary homework: to talk, to listen, to trust that the person you love can hold the worst thing you have to say without turning away." - All That Dazzles

"The sense of paring things back is matched by Jeremy Herrin's production, which is naturalistic and uncluttered. But there's a little more to it than that. The relative lack of other cast members (Lena Kaur plays a midwife in one scene) and the fact Grace Smart's sets don't tend to fill the stage, but rather sit in inky pools of darkness, gives it an unsettling, claustrophobic feel. It also has a discrete, disorientating razzle dazzle gained from each of its six scenes having a totally different set, the changes effected silently and startlingly during brief blackout interludes." - Time Out