Love and Information

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 rapid-fire kaleidoscope of over 50 short scenes and 100 characters, LOVE AND INFORMATION asks: what do we really know about each other—and how much information can we hold whilst still remaining open to love?

Written by legendary playwright Caryl Churchill, this bold work fractures time, space, and narrative. Scenes shuffle, lines rearrange, and characters vanish before you can get too close. Every performance is different. Every moment is fleeting.

This BY THEATRE WORKS production is a sensory overload—cinematic, maximalist, and relentlessly scored. With original music that crashes and swells like Frank Ocean via Hans Zimmer, every scene pulses with energy, emotion, and rhythm. There’s no silence. Just noise, beauty, chaos, and humanity. 

It was first performed at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, London, on 6 September 2012.