Love and Information

Synopsis

What are we going to do? We've got to know - I won't be able to sleep - What are we going to do? Someone sneezes. Someone can't get a signal. Someone shares a secret. Someone won't answer the door. Someone put an elephant on the stairs. Someone's not ready to talk. Someone is her brother's mother. Someone hates irrational numbers. Someone told the police. Someone got a message from the traffic light. Someone's never felt like this before. In this fast moving kaleidoscope more than a hundred characters try to make sense of what they know.

Our Review:

Michael Coveney - 17 September 2012

A myriad of short scenes, a plethora of ideas, a large cast, a script of unallocated lines (with an appendix of "random" alternatives), a comedy of communication, a drama of depression, a modern manual of sex, memory and schizophrenia.

I’m not quite sure how it happens, but every time Caryl Churchill writes a play (and this is her first major work for six years), she breaks the mould. In some ways, Love and Information is a sketch show. In others, it's a detonating minefield of suggestion and pessimism.

For the 16 actors – including such leading lights as Linda Bassett, Amanda Drew, Susan Engel, John Heffernan, Paul Jesson, Rashan Stone and Sarah Woodward – it's a playground of mini-plays, dazzlingly exposed on Miriam Buether's unadorned stage, lit by Peter Mumford, and directed with a merciless wryness by James Macdonald.

Telling people things – "I'm your mum, Mum's your nan, OK?"; "ten per cent of people...

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Latest User Review

addicted to theatre - 15 October 2012:

Like eating chocolate peanuts, its quite enjoyable but not satisfying. Cast are great, and kudos to the stage managers who have to carry out so many scene changes in so short of time. ...

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