A hundred different words for love

Three years ago, James met the love of his life. A year ago, they broke up. This is James’s story of falling in love and landing broken-hearted. It’s also about him being Best Man of Honour at Sarah and Emma’s wedding. And it’s the story of a quest: to find the right words to make sense of love.

Cast

James Rowland

Creative Team

Daniel Goldman (Director), Rosie Collins (Photographer)

After the success of Team Viking, and because a whole lot more life had just happened to James, we decided to try to do it again, tell another story. We took everything we’d learned about making a storytelling show on Team Viking and quickly realised that it was only going to be vaguely helpful. They say second albums are hard. Well, what they say is true. It was hard. And a huge learning curve. And ultimately brilliant because we very quickly understood that trying to recreate Team Viking was going to be frustrating for the audience and dull for us. Instead, we started to think and rethink how we might use different structural forms to tell this new story and how the journey we might take the audience on would be very different. Of course, in the end, there are lots of call backs to Team Viking. There had to be. It’s a story populated by the same people… and James has his way of telling a story… and we also realised that we wanted it to be part two of a trilogy… but having said all that, it’s a very different show, and to my surprise, as I didn’t realise it was happening at the time, there’s a lot more of me in it.

On this one, people ask us if it’s really not true because it surely must be. And the answer is…