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Love and Information

The first audio production of Caryl Churchill's popular 2012 drama. More than 50 scenes with more than 100 different characters make up a thrilling kaleidoscope of human behaviour.

The first audio production of Caryl Churchill's insightful drama about human relationships in the post-information age.

Love and Information is a vivid mosaic of contemporary consciousness. In a series of fascinating vignettes, characters withhold, extract and disclose information; they believe things that aren’t true and disbelieve things that are true; they interpret and misinterpret; they go to great lengths to discover pointless things; they regret a lack of connectivity. The scenes consider the relationship between knowledge and faith and between feeling and knowing; how memory works and whether it's always better to know.

A company of ten stage and screen actors play over a hundred characters in over fifty scenes. They are: Michelle Austin, Josh Barrow, Rosie Cavaliero, Kathleen Cranham, Emma Fielding, Karl Johnson, Joel MacCormack, Sam Swann, Danielle Vitalis and Alan Williams. Multi-award-winning sound designer Jon Nicholls creates a whole soundscape for each tiny drama and artfully weaves them together.

Playwright: Caryl Churchill
Director: Mary Peate
Composer and Sound Designer: Jon NIcholls
'Du bist die Ruh' singer: Helen Wright
'Du bist die Ruh' pianist: John Wright
Producer: Jessica Dromgoole

Love and Information is made for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3 by Hooley Productions Limited.

Caryl Churchill
One of Britain’s greatest playwrights, Caryl Churchill has influenced dramatists across the world throughout her sixty-year career. She continues to innovate, inventing new theatrical forms with each new play. As Andrew Dickson puts it in the New Yorker, β€˜she has continued to speak powerfully to the present moment.’

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1 hour, 19 minutes

Last on

Sun 14 Jul 2024 20:00

Broadcast

  • Sun 14 Jul 2024 20:00