{"id":702525,"date":"2026-01-17T17:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T17:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/702525\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T17:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T17:18:15","slug":"lost-atoms-is-just-what-i-needed-on-a-cold-winter-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/702525\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Atoms ‘is just what I needed’ on a cold, Winter night"},"content":{"rendered":"

It will take you on a journey<\/p>\n

(Image: Tristram Kenton_Smaller)<\/p>\n

For me, it has been a long Winter so far – where I have felt the urge to hibernate, where I have felt a lot more introspective than usual. I think I am far from being alone in these feelings at this time of the year.<\/p>\n

But, last night, I forced myself and my best friend out of the house, for a much-needed date night at the theatre. And, oh boy, I am so glad I did. Lost Atoms – at the Bristol Old Vic<\/a> until January 24 – was just what I needed.<\/p>\n

Telling the story of a romantic relationship between a man and a woman – Jess and Robbie, the only two people we see on stage -, I found the show to be extremely cathartic. Lost Atoms truly captures what love is and feels like; from the process of falling in love to a relationship ending, from the highs and intensity to the blowing, crushing lows.<\/p>\n

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(Image: Tristram Kenton_Smaller)<\/p>\n

These are feelings and experiences that many of us have gone through, but Anna Jordan ( The Unreturning , Yen and TV\u2019s Succession and One Day ) is able to beautifully and carefully put it into words. As someone who came out of a long-term relationship not that long ago and who has now re-entered the world of dating, I found it really resonated with me.<\/p>\n

For me, Lost Atoms captures the very human need of connection, of belonging – of love. This one sentence – rightly so used by the Old Vic on the promotion – really stuck with me: “Love\u2019s strange, isn\u2019t it? You think you\u2019re going to feel it in your chest, or your gut. But I swear, I can feel it in every cell.”<\/p>\n

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(Image: Tristram Kenton_Smaller)<\/p>\n

Joe Layton (Robbie) and Jess (Hannah Sinclair Robinson) are both excellent, and it gave me such pleasure and joy to watch them. With a running time of 2h 20min (including interval), I was thoroughly engaged throughout and time seemed to fly as I found myself more and more immersed into their relationship.<\/p>\n

The scenography is kept simple – it is all about the drawers – , but it is effective and adds another dimension to the production. Lost Atoms is certainly one of the best shows I have seen for some time, and I am not surprised by the glowing reviews it has had elsewhere.<\/p>\n

The Bristol Old Vic is one of the city\u2019s treasures and, on a cold Winter night, it gave me just what I needed without realising it; a couple of hours of outstanding acting and memorable writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It will take you on a journey (Image: Tristram Kenton_Smaller) For me, it has been a long Winter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,28103,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-702525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-bristol-old-vic","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115911583782999766","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}