About

Constellations is about free will and friendship, quantum multiverse theory, love and honey. A couple meet and the play explores how their relationship might play out in Sliding Doors-style variations. Beekeeper Roland and physicist Marianne first meet at a barbecue and become romantically involved. Marianne is an expert on string theory and believes that there are multiple universes that pull people’s lives in various directions – this is reflected in the play’s structure. Essentially this is a warm, funny and engaging love story, that ponders the paths in all our lives that remain untaken…

First performed at the Royal Court Theatre in 2012, starring Rafe Spall and Sally Hawkins, it won the best play category in the Evening Standard Theatre Awards that year and was nominated for several Olivier Awards. Its 2021 revival at the Donmar Warehouse featured four casts on rotation; the production won an Olivier Award for the best revival in 2022.

One reviewer described the play as “a high-concept romance… playful and profound, comic and mournful; it asks big questions about existence, purpose and free will but… also feels weightless and fun.”