Heartbreak Hotel

Are you loved or are you lonely? Have you ever been dumped, cheated on or ditched? Then it’s about time you checked in to the Heartbreak Hotel where lost loves come to mourn what once was.

The Heartbreak hotel written by Ian Meadows and Kate Mulvany, directed my Paige Rattray and Shannon Murphy, takes the audience on an emotional journey of love, loss and of course heartbreak.

Entering the charming old Griffin Theatre we are greeted by our very own bellhop, complete with bright red jacket and brass gold buttons and that perfectly tilted hat chinstrap and all. We are given our ‘ticket’ to the hotel which details what we will be seeing that night and where we need to go. Armed with a set of headphones we follow our bellhop through the maze that is Griffin and enter a small theatre. Inside we form a single line were we are branded with a ‘loved?’ or ‘lonely?’ stamp. Thankfully I’m told I’m loved and am able to sit with my friends. The room quickly darkens as ‘Sands through the hour glass’ begins - a contemporary piece with two powerful acting performances detailing a hotel murder the truth about lost love.