Love Love Love
From: Friday, 27th April 2012
To: Saturday, 9 June 2012
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Synopsis
1967. Kenneth and Sandra meet, and it's a whole new world. A fiery relationship is sparked in the haze of the 60s, and charred by today's brutal realities. From passion to paranoia, Love, Love, Love takes on the baby boomer generation as it retires, and finds it full of trouble.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 4 May 2012
Mike Bartlett’s Love, Love, Love is one of the most ambitious, and most accomplished, domestic dramas in a long while and in James Grieve’s fine production boasts two performances by Victoria Hamilton and Ben Miles that will surely feature at the year’s end in all the awards lists.
They play Sandra and Kenneth, trippy hippy lovers at Oxford in the late 1960s, then embittered parents in 1990 (“We live in Reading; something’s gone wrong”) and finally selfishly reunited old friends in 2011.
Why the “selfish”? It is Bartlett’s fashionable, reactionary (and deeply flawed) view that the baby-boomers, beneficiaries of the post-war re-build and new moral laxity, have spoilt the world for their children.
“In a coruscating third act the couple’s daughter, Rose (Claire Foy), an impecu...
In some ways, Bartlett's play is an act of revenge by one generation on another”
Latest User Review
Bazzathegooner - 9 June 2012:
Just loved it. Beautifully observed. I'm so sorry my kids won't be able to see it - how about an extension?...
Cast
Claire Foy (Rosie)
Victoria Hamilton (Sandra)
Ben Miles (Kenneth)
George Rainsford (Jamie)
Sam Troughton (Henry)
Creative
Mike Bartlett (Author)
Coutts (Corporate Sponsor)
Royal Court Theatre (Producer)
Paines Plough (in association with Drum Theatre Plymouth) (Producer)
James Grieve (Director)
Lucy Osborne (Design)
James Farncombe (Lighting)
Tom Gibbons (Sound)
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