Love, Love, Love
From: Tuesday, 8th March 2011
To: Saturday, 12 March 2011
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Synopsis
1967. Kenneth and Sandra know the world is changing. And they want some of it. Love, Love, Love takes on the baby boomer generation as it retires, and finds it full of trouble. Smoking, drinking, affectionate and paranoid, Mike Bartlett’s play follows one couple’s forty-year journey from initial burst to full bloom.
Our Review:
Veronica Crowley - 8 March 2011
Mike Bartlett’s play, jointly produced by Paines Plough and Plymouth’s Drum Theatre is set in; 1967, 1990 and 2011 with sets that are imaginatively different and symbolise their eras. The story follows a couple’s forty year journey from wild 60’s teenagers to retirement. Their ongoing relationship typifies the explosive changes in world philosophy in the 60s; through Thatcher’s ‘get rich quick’ years; and finally onto the inevitable breakdown of this high rolling couple as reality bites. This three act play is superbly performed by the five characters, cleverly highlighting the vast differences between the three periods.
The play starts in the summer of 1967 - Beatles songs, smoking cannabis, free love and no thought for the repercussions this new found lifestyle may have on the generation to follow. I feel this first act is far too long and slow moving. At half its present length it could approach the interest generated by the rest of ...
Creative
Mike Bartlett (Author)
Paines Plough (Producer)
Drum Theatre Plymouth (Producer)
James Grieve (Director)
Lucy Osborne (Design)
Hartley T A Kemp (Lighting)
Tom Gibbons (Sound)
Jack Lowe (assistant) (Director)
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