Guess How Much I Love You?

by Luke Norris

'People are capable of anything. Including this. Including you.'

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. Luke Norris's play opened at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2026, directed by Jeremy Herrin and starring Rosie Sheehy and Robert Aramayo.

Genres: Plays

120 pages, Paperback

Published January 22, 2026

Reviews

[Doug]

4.5, rounded down

Norris is perhaps better known as an actor, but he has been carving out a side hustle as a playwright for awhile now also - with mixed results. I liked and appreciated what he was trying to do here, but too much shouting, and a late turn towards religiosity, kept it from being a 5-star read for me. The recent Royal Court premiere production garnered raves, however, primarily due to the stellar cast of newly BAFTA-winning Robert Aramayo and Rosie Sheehy in the leads.

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[MattThatReads]

A play that has finally made me really appreciate how you can tell how good it will be when you see it performed. Genuinely heartbreaking, harrowing and bleak at times. The third scene may be one of the greatest scenes ever written for stage in terms of the dramatic reveal. Only marked down because the female character is consistently underwritten in terms of her intelligence comparative to her partners, and is constantly asking her husband what things mean and needing clarification, but this could be interpreted as someone dealing with brain fog from pregnancy and postpartum depression.

[Elan Davies]

This was one of the most beautiful and tender plays I've ever read. I am viciously envious of anyone lucky enough to have seen it when it was on at the Royal Court. God, how I truly fell in love with the characterisation of both characters, their ebbs and flows, strengths and weaknesses. It was so raw and real and devastating. By act 4, I don't think ever stopped crying. I'll never forget this play.

[Harry McDonald]

An almost unbearably moving play - the third scene of which reads like a study in how to reveal information as dramatic action. Though you can only think that once you've swallowed the tears.

[JD Stewart]

I get it but I felt absolutely nothing while reading this.

[Arian]

The story and themes are nothing original, but this is fantastically written. All the dialogue felt authentic. This must be great to see performed.

[Ben Willows]

I hate everybody involved in conspiring to send me to Austria so that I couldn't see this play live. This is utterly remarkable playwriting I have tears in my eyes

[Anna Kefalas]

“‘Like it or not, the world is full of you and me - we’re everywhere - and you might not want to hear that, but it’s true; we’re not unique. And we will survive it not just because we fucking have to but because we can, because people are capable of anything. Including this. Including you.’”

this play has joined the ranks of job as one of my favorite plays of all time. let the summer of two handers begin!