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"Luke Norris's play is a harrowing portrait of pregnancy and grief, plumbing the depths of sorrow within a marriage. But it is not only that. It is funny and profound, intense without ever becoming overwrought…an emotional tour de force." —Guardian
At their twenty-week scan, an expectant couple’s lives are changed forever. Compassionate, unflinching and painfully funny, Guess How Much I Love You? is a story about impossible choices and enduring love.
"Searing…a work of pure compassion."
—Observer
"Guess How Much I Love You? is a play illuminated by love. It takes an extreme version of the fears facing every couple who have ever tried for a baby and examines it with compassion and sensitivity…Utterly contemporary and entirely real, crackling with the cut and thrust of everyday conversation."
—WhatsOnStage
"A fearlessly intense foray into the unthinkable."
—Independent
"Exquisitely excruciating…A bad writer can render grief cheaply; a good one such as Norris can expose its tangled, selfish, monstrous devastation."
—Telegraph
"Painfully acute and emotionally true…exquisite."
—Time Out
"All sorts of agonies have been seen on [the Royal Court's] stage over the years, from Edward Bond to Sarah Kane and beyond, but few have been quite so intimate as this…this smartly observed, cannily constructed, beautifully performed play will stay with me."
—The Times
"Profoundly compassionate…fierce in intensity, and desperately moving in its impact."
—Arts Desk
"Harrowingly powerful…Norris knows how to compose dialogue that addresses the unsayable but also embraces the unsaid."
—London Standard
"A sort of gloriously profane hymn to hope and human resilience that strings together the most raw, most intensely private moments, like the barbs on a length of razor wire…Shattering, and in its way, quite beautiful."
—The Stage
"A devastating drama that demonstrates the eviscerating power of live theatre…this play should go on to conquer the world."
—The i Paper
Luke Norris is a writer and actor. His writing credits include: Guess How Much I Love You? (Royal Court Theatre, London, 2025); Growth (Paines Plough UK tour, 2016); So Here We Are (HighTide Festival and Manchester Royal Exchange, 2015; winner of the Bruntwood Prize Judges’ Award, 2013); Hearts (National Theatre Connections); and Goodbye To All That (Royal Court Theatre, 2012), among others.