A time-twisting, darkly funny love story of second chances and fate’s fine print, MAKE IT COUNT asks: what would you change if you could live your marriage again… and what might you destroy by trying?

When Jonas dies suddenly, the afterlife admits an error: he wasn’t meant to go.

Offered the chance to return, he takes it—only to learn the “refund policy” is brutal: he must go back sixteen years to the night he first met Lily, who doesn’t know him yet, their marriage is suddenly something he has to earn—again.

Jonas tries to rebuild a love story he remembers in a life Lily hasn’t yet lived, trapped between romance, manipulation, and the cosmic consequences of getting it wrong.

James Sweeney’s play won Scratch Night 2025. Premiering at the Louth Riverhead Theatre, June 2026.