Lovers Walk

In this unassuming but rather lovely experience, Highhearted theatre offer a 50-minute guided walk around the streets of Southwark, visiting landmarks not because of their historical importance but because of their huge significance to two young lovers, Rosie and Matt. We stand where Matt first glimpsed Rosie; visit the site of their first kiss; stop by HMS Belfast, where they had an argument; witness their break-up by the river as the sun sets and the chill night falls.

Some people have soundtracks for their relationships, but here it's as if the landmarks of the city – Tower Bridge, Westminster cathedral, City Hall – have become a huge film set where Rosie and Matt play out their love affair like actors in a cliched romcom. Lovers Walk captures the egotism of love, the moments when you have eyes only for each other; the passersby are the extras, hurrying by unaware of their walk-on role in this everyday romance of tingling possibilities, wounded hearts and stalking tendencies.

It's a slight piece, but not without its subtleties: it successfully combines a layered knowingness with a sweet, unaffected directness. The actors who play Rosie and Matt are also called Rosie (Waters) and Matt (Odell), and take us on our trip like tour guides holding raised red umbrellas aloft. They share their story in the second-person, a device that makes them simultaneously narrators of and commentators on their own unfolding story as it runs away with them.