What Falls Apart by Torben Betts

Watch writer Torben Betts and director Max Roberts as they talk about What Falls Apart which will receive its world premiere at Live Theatre from 22 April to 16 May 2015.

May 2015: The most important General Election for a generation. All is not well for Tom Savage, an ex-Labour minister parachuted into a safe North East constituency, trying to win hearts and minds as well as an Election.

Wrestling with a heady cocktail of mid-life crisis, growing dependency on alcohol and the consequences of his Government's policies in Iraq, Tom finds himself in a Tyneside hotel bar at midnight with a newly-teetotal barman and a 'criminally attractive' woman. What could possibly go wrong? Plenty...