Love, Love, Love
From: Tuesday, 26th October 2010
To: Saturday, 6 November 2010
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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:
29 October 2010
Love, Love, Love, by Olivia Award winning playwright Mike Bartlett accurately pinpoints the generation gap between wealthy pensioners and their impoverished children.
A Paines Plough/Drum Theatre production directed by James Grieve, its three Acts takes us through a couple’s lives in the years 1967, 1990 and 2011.
The baby-boomers, Sandra and Kenneth meet in the swinging sixties when the Beatles ‘Love, Love, Lovc’ is a big hit and they enjoy cannabis, free love and student grants. They become an item after Sandra ditches his brother. This Act is a bit too long but it is an accurate reflection of the times.
The second act is lively and enthralling as the children of that spoilt generation are reaching maturity themselves In their comfortable middle-class home, we meet the teenaged kids affected by their parents’ lack of concern even confessing their infidelities in front of them, before...
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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