Love and Information

Caryl Churchill's LOVE AND INFORMATION

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-2Wm_g9WnU

"The play, featuring 100 characters and performed by a cast of 15, is structured as a series of more than 50 fragmented scenes, some no longer than 25 seconds, all of which are apparently unrelated but which accumulate into a startling mosaic, a portrayal of modern consciousness and the need for human intimacy, love and connection."

I would say that Caryl Churchill's play love and information, is similar to our play in a lot of plays. Firstly we address many different relationships, and some of them are greatly contrasting, but some do have some minor similarities. We also have a large focus on multi rolling, with 2 of us multi rolling into 14 characters, which is obviously not as much as love and information, but we spend longer with our characters compared to love and information. Caryl Churchill's work has a strong theatrical influence from Bertolt Brecht's theory of "Epic theatre", in her exploration of gender and sexuality. I like to think we have explored gender through relationships in our piece, in the way in which we have looked at men, and their gender roles. In that all the men in our piece are reflective of a typical stereotype, such as the chavvy lads and Richard being a ladies man. Furthermore we have exploited this stereotype of domestic violence, in seeing it from a mans point of view enduring abuse from a woman. 

There is this sense of being a spectator whilst in the audience with love and information, in that there does not seem to be any boundaries, of what can be performed onstage. In some ways this is something that we have set out to achieve also, as we want the audience to feel as though they are part of the piece, as way to highlight how relatable our characters are, and that we have all witnessed characters similar to the ones we are portraying.