Lovesong at The Unicorn Theatre

Lovesong is a tender and quietly powerful play by Abi Morgan that traces a marriage across decades, revealing how love evolves, deepens and endures over time. Moving fluidly between youth and later years, the play places two versions of a couple side by side, allowing past and present to unfold simultaneously on stage. Through their shared memories and lived experiences, the story explores love, aging and the ways in which memory shapes identity. As time moves forward, the impact of early choices reverberates across a lifetime, illuminating the fragility of happiness, the resilience of partnership and the inevitability of change. At its heart, Lovesong is an intimate meditation on devotion and the quiet moments that define a shared life.

Directed by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright David Auburn, a longtime collaborator and creative force at Berkshire Theatre Group, this production brings together artists deeply connected to the Unicorn stage. Karen Allen, a beloved BTG performer and Berkshire resident known internationally for Raiders of the Lost Ark and Starman, returns to a theatre she has long called home. Broadway veteran David Garrison, who appeared at BTG in the world premiere of Coming Back Like a Song as Irving Berlin, joins an accomplished ensemble that includes Rebecca Brooksher and Shawn Fagan, both familiar faces to BTG audiences. Brooksher and Fagan have appeared in numerous Unicorn productions, including The Importance of Being Earnest, Photograph 51 and Abe Lincoln in Illinois—all directed by Auburn—creating a meaningful artistic throughline that continues with Lovesong.

Intimate, reflective and emotionally layered, Lovesong exemplifies The Unicorn Theatre’s commitment to artist-driven storytelling. With its close-knit ensemble and poetic structure, the play offers audiences a poignant exploration of partnership, memory and the enduring tenderness that carries love across a lifetime.