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    Love and Information
    Love and Information
    Love and Information
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    Love and Information

    By Caryl Churchill

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    A stunningly ambitious work from one of the UK's most influential playwrights.
    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 fast-moving kaleidoscope, more than a hundred characters try to make sense of what they know. Premiered at the Royal Court in September 2012.
    'This exhilarating theatrical kaleidoscope... What is extraordinary about Churchill is her capacity as a dramatist to go on reinventing the wheel' The Guardian
    'The wit, invention and structural integrity of Churchill's work are remarkable... She never does the same thing twice' The Telegraph
    'A wonderful web of complex emotions, memories, secrets and facts' A Younger Theatre
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNick Hern Books
    Release dateNov 8, 2012
    ISBN9781780011714
    Love and Information
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    Caryl Churchill

    Caryl Churchill is a leading playwright who has written widely for the stage, television and radio. Her stage plays include: Owners (Royal Court Theatre, London, 1972); Objections to Sex and Violence (Royal Court, 1975); Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (Joint Stock, 1976); Vinegar Tom (Monstrous Regiment, 1976); Traps (Royal Court, 1977); Cloud Nine (Joint Stock, 1979); Three More Sleepless Nights (Soho Poly and Royal Court, 1980); Top Girls (Royal Court, 1982); Fen (Joint Stock, 1983); Softcops (RSC, 1984); A Mouthful of Birds with David Lan (Joint Stock, 1986); Serious Money (Royal Court and Wyndham's, London, then Public Theater, New York, 1987); Icecream (Royal Court, 1989); Mad Forest (Central School of Speech and Drama, then Royal Court, 1990); Lives of the Great Poisoners with Orlando Gough and Ian Spink (Second Stride, 1991); The Skriker (Royal National Theatre, 1994); Thyestes translated from Seneca (Royal Court, 1994); Hotel with Orlando Gough and Ian Spink (Second Stride, 1997); This is a Chair (Royal Court, 1997); Blue Heart (Joint Stock, 1997); Far Away (Royal Court, 2000, and Albery, London, 2001, then New York Theatre Workshop, 2002); A Number (Royal Court, 2002, then New York Theatre Workshop, 2004); A Dream Play after Strindberg (Royal National Theatre, 2005); Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? (Royal Court, 2006, then Public Theater, New York, 2008); Bliss, translated from Olivier Choinière (Royal Court, 2008); Seven Jewish Children – a play for Gaza (Royal Court, 2009); Love and Information (Royal Court, 2012); Ding Dong the Wicked (Royal Court, 2012); Here We Go (National Theatre, 2015); Escaped Alone (Royal Court, 2016), Pigs and Dogs (Royal Court, 2016), Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp. (Royal Court, 2019) and What If If Only (Royal Court, 2021).

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      Love and Information - Caryl Churchill

      1

      SECRET

      Please please tell me

      no

      please because I’ll never

      don’t ask don’t ask

      I’ll never tell

      no

      no matter what

      it’s not

      I’d die before I told

      it’s not you telling, even if you didn’t

      I wouldn’t

      it’s you knowing it’s too awful I can’t

      but tell me

      no

      because if you don’t there’s this secret between us

      stop it

      if there’s this secret we’re not

      please

      we’re not close any more we can’t ever

      but nobody knows everything about

      yes but a big secret like this

      it’s not such a big

      then tell me

      will you stop

      it’s big because you won’t tell me

      no I won’t.

      Is it something you’ve

      don’t start guessing

      or something you want to

      please

      or you’ve seen or heard or know or

      please

      and if it’s something you’ve done is it a crime or a sin or just embarrassing because whichever

      no I don’t want you to know.

      All right.

      All right I’ll tell you

      you don’t have to

      I’ll tell you

      yes tell me because I’ll never

      it’s not that

      tell me because I’ll always

      all right I’m telling you.

      Tells in a whisper.

      No

      yes

      no

      I warned you

      but that’s

      yes

      oh no that’s

      yes

      how could you

      I did.

      Now what? now what? now what?

      CENSUS

      Why do they need to know all this stuff ?

      They’re doing research. It guides their policy. They use it to help people.

      They use it to sell us things we don’t want.

      No that’s the people who phone up. I don’t answer any of their questions, I just say No thank you, there’s no need to swear at them.

      I’ve made a mess of it now anyway.

      You’ll get into trouble if you don’t do it.

      They won’t know.

      They know you exist.

      FAN

      Love him so much

      love him more than you

      I’d jump out of the window

      eat fire

      cut off my hand

      eat dogshit

      kill my mother

      eat catfood

      yeuch

      just to touch him

      just to tell him

      just to see him

      just to have him see me.

      He was born at ten past two in the morning and I was born at two past ten

      how do you know?

      Mum says

      two past ten

      she said just after ten so that’s two

      that isn’t two

      it is two

      anyway he was born on Tuesday and I was born on Wednesday and you were only born on Friday

      that’s stupid.

      His favourite colour’s blue

      favourite food’s chilli

      favourite animal’s snakes

      favourite holiday was in Bermuda

      what’s his favourite smell?

      Roses

      you’re making that up

      well what?

      I’m asking you

      you don’t know

      I’m asking you

      you don’t know do you go on tell me

      you tell me

      I don’t know you tell me

      all right I don’t know so we’ve got to find out

      you mean neither of us know?

      It’s all right we’ll find out

      I can’t believe neither of us

      it’s in here somewhere

      I know I used to know

      wait

      is it chicken?

      wait

      you can’t find it

      I can’t

      you’re not looking properly

      I can’t find it

      here let me

      you can’t find it

      wait

      it’s not there

      wait

      see you can’t.

      What are we going to do?

      we’ve got to know

      I won’t be able

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