Love and Information

Show details

Directed by
Taio Lawson

Designed by
Amanda Mascarenhas

Lighting Design by
Benjamin Laws-Williams

Sound Design by
Bella Kear

Assistant Directed by
Beth Wilson

Movement Direction by
Angela Gasparetto

Musical Direction by
Leo Munby

Voice Coaching by
Alex Bingley

Venue
The Carne Studio Theatre

Dates
Tuesday 10 November at 7.45pm
Wednesday 11 November at 7.45pm
Thursday 12 November at 2.15pm & 7.45pm

Duration
1 hour 40 mins

About the show

“There was someone called Hippasus in Greek times who found out about the diagonal of a square and they drowned him because no one wanted to know about things like that.”

With 52 scenes, seven sections and over a 100 characters, Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information is a vibrant series of short scenes inspired by the twin themes of the title.

Some funny, others poignant and many powerful, these snippets of life analyse how humanity endeavours to make sense of both ourselves and the world around us, with Churchill’s great tenderness and an exacting knife.

About the writer, Caryl Churchill

Caryl Churchill was born on 3 September 1938 in London and grew up in the Lake District and in Montreal. She was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Downstairs, her first play written while she was still at university, was first staged in 1958 and won an award at the Sunday Times National Union of Students Drama Festival.

Caryl Churchill’s plays include: Owners, Traps, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Cloud 9, Top Girls, Fen, Serious Money, Ice Cream, Mad Forest, The Skriker, Blue Heart, This is a Chair, Far Away, A Number, Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?, Seven Jewish Children, Love & Information, Here We Go and Escaped Alone. Music theatre includes Lives of the Great Poisoners and Hotel, both with Orlando Gough. Caryl has also written for radio and television.