91Èȱ¬

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 91Èȱ¬ 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, ‘she has continued to speak powerfully to the present moment.’