Love, Love, Love
From: Tuesday, 5th April 2011
To: Saturday, 9 April 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:
Joanne Hartley - 5 April 2011
The dramatic rise and fall of a luxuriously rouched red velvet curtain separates three acts, three era and three living rooms. Perhaps this nostalgic nod at ‘retro’ theatre auditoria is also intended to acknowledge the very traditional, possibly even a little dated, feel of the structure and staging of Mike Bartlett’s Love Love Love?
The play introduces us to Kenneth as he participates in a historical first. It is 1967, the Eurovision Song Contest is being broadcast simultaneously in 26 countries and watched by four hundred million viewers. Kenneth enjoys the broadcast from the comfort of his brother’s sofa; he’s lodging in his flat during a summer break from University. When Henry enters the scene, unimpressed and distinctly unaffected by the momentous event taking place, the contrasting personalities and ‘politics’ of the two brothers are evident. Henry, though only five years older, is very much a part of the ‘ol...
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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