Love and Information

From the Program:

Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information (2012) is often described as a ‘fast-moving kaleidoscope’ of scenes and expression. The play is divided into seven sections that must be performed in order. Within each section, production teams are encouraged to scramble the scenes however they like and are also allowed to add scenes from a ‘Random’ section in the back of the script. There are also required ‘Depression’ scenes that must be added to the show but can be added into or around any section. Each scene does not designate how many characters are involved nor where characters start and stop speaking. The punctuation is limited, and some of the scenes are as short as a few words or are without dialogue entirely. With these constraints in mind, we can guarantee that our production of Love and Information is unlike any version that you may have seen before. Our goal in tackling this play is to be brave, experimental, ethical, and to bring joy into our project. We hope that you have as much fun watching our production as we did making it!

Order of Scenes:

Section 1: Secret, Torture, Census, Fan (with Random: Dance), Depression: Glass of Red, Sleep, Random: Painting, Lab, Remote

Section 2: Affair, Mother, Irrational, Fired, Terminal, Message, Grass

Section 3: The Child Who Didn’t Know Fear, Depression: Fountain, Schizophrenic, Recluse, Spies, Depression: Chicken, Dream, Random: Dog, God’s Voice, Star

Transition: Random: Morse

Section 4: Wedding Video, Savant, Ex, Memory House, Dinner, Piano, Flashback, Depression: Program, Depression: Walk

Intermission: Random: Birdsong

Section 5: Linguist, Maths, Sex, Depression: Kittens, God, Rash, Children, Shrink

Section 6: The Child Who Didn’t Know Sorry, Random: Keys, Climate, Random: Magazine, Depression: Difficulty, Censor, Wife, Depression: Exhibition, Decision, Depression: Story, The Child Who Didn’t Know Pain, Earthquake

Transition: Depression: Two Months

Section 7: Grief, Random: Google, Manic, Chinese Poetry, Random: Silence, Fate, Stone, Virtual, Small Thing, Last Scene: Facts