There are a million songs, a million poems or a million books written everyday about that four-letter word, love. The word that means so much to so many is not easily definable by everyone involved within it’s crazy, hug filled claws. Ever since mankind decided that it could walk upright, we have had untold amounts of attempts at trying to put across to each other what love is. It could be sweeter than wine, or all around you, but it is definitely everywhere. From Mickey Mouse to Mike Leigh, Shakespeare to Shakatak, mankind has always had views given forth in aid of attempting to come to terms with this crazy little thing called love.

The latest applicant throwing his hat into the ring is Patrick Marber with his modern drama of sex and relationships, Closer.

Closer is a view of love in the modern sense, a falling-out-of – love story for our times. The story revolves around four strangers, how they meet, how they fall in love, and how they become caught in a web of intrigue: lies, love, sex, photographs, the internet, strip clubs and, of course, as in all of the best love stories, betrayal. As you would expect from a play written by a co-writer of The Day Today and Alan Partridge, the play offers comedy alongside the sad and the wise as the play thunders on to its destructive climax.

Closer probes deep into personal relationships and the ambiguous areas of emotional dependence, self-deceit and the fragility of everyone’s expectations of love.

Closer is a play aimed at adults, revolving around a theme that all adults will have a view on, be it one way or another. It is by no means an original theme and it is far from easy to write an observed view on the matter, but there will always be tales told of love, and of the highs and lows we bring upon ourselves. Closer is one more person’s view on the topic, and all to a soundtrack you may will find masquerading under the title, ‘Now that’s what I call the best ever Y2K guitar based indie album in the world this year, ever 23’.

Closer is well worth going to see if you can, even if it‘s to see if you can tell your story better.