Love and Information Caryl Churchill
A play whose numerous characters are trying to make sense of what they know and what is
revealed. It explores the issues of knowledge and communication.
As a designer, explain and justify how you would interpret the themes of knowledge and
communication in a performance for a contemporary audience. In your answer, you should
refer to one extract from the play, and analyse and evaluate how any live productions you
have seen have influenced your decisions (section B)
Notes -
● Knowledge - bombarding people with information, using the old computers to film
this and play it on the mound so anyone walking around is able to view it,
bombarding information all over the mound - have it slightly distorted as well
showing random fractures of information and the distorted giving of knowledge
● Communication - how communication today is completely virtual --- using costume
to convey how only see what people portray within
● Set --- In a drum revolve - revolving slowly, in the Olivier theatre - with central stage
in the round - with a mound of technology full of retro computers and old central
telephones, with Halo light seeping down, ‘circular truss system’ illuminating the
stage rotating
● Clothing --- Each actor within the scene dressed in a grey, skin tight morphsuit made
of a nylon material, They will cover the actor up to a high neck fit (enabling hair and
makeup design) Through my use of a grey morph suit, it will be reminiscent of the
automatic profile picture that Instagram and Facebook auto fill in when an internet
user doesn’t select their own profile pictures
● The nylon suits will be printed with potential ‘bios’ that someone may use -Eg. ‘24,
London, Dog lover, Bookworm’, ‘57, Corporate executive for UBS, Mum of 3.’
● Through my use of a very menial colour, the only distinguishing factor will be
people's bios, and will show how people's identities depend on what they put online
and not in person. It will also allow a contemporary audience to
● The costumes start all individualistic and then at the end they are all the same, this
shows that technology has made people homogenised by western values; culture and
heritage is being stripped by western values that have been enforced on people that
use the internet. --For example, someone will be dressed as a punk? Someone else
will be dressed wearing a red better with matching red kitten heels and blue light
wash tight jeans- these r of 2012 times. The will all progressively turn into the morphs
A play whose numerous characters are trying to make sense of what they know and what is
revealed. It explores the issues of knowledge and communication.
As a designer, explain and justify how you would interpret the themes of knowledge and
communication in a performance for a contemporary audience. In your answer, you should
refer to one extract from the play, and analyse and evaluate how any live productions you
have seen have influenced your decisions (section B)
Notes -
● Knowledge - bombarding people with information, using the old computers to film
this and play it on the mound so anyone walking around is able to view it,
bombarding information all over the mound - have it slightly distorted as well
showing random fractures of information and the distorted giving of knowledge
● Communication - how communication today is completely virtual --- using costume
to convey how only see what people portray within
● Set --- In a drum revolve - revolving slowly, in the Olivier theatre - with central stage
in the round - with a mound of technology full of retro computers and old central
telephones, with Halo light seeping down, ‘circular truss system’ illuminating the
stage rotating
● Clothing --- Each actor within the scene dressed in a grey, skin tight morphsuit made
of a nylon material, They will cover the actor up to a high neck fit (enabling hair and
makeup design) Through my use of a grey morph suit, it will be reminiscent of the
automatic profile picture that Instagram and Facebook auto fill in when an internet
user doesn’t select their own profile pictures
● The nylon suits will be printed with potential ‘bios’ that someone may use -Eg. ‘24,
London, Dog lover, Bookworm’, ‘57, Corporate executive for UBS, Mum of 3.’
● Through my use of a very menial colour, the only distinguishing factor will be
people's bios, and will show how people's identities depend on what they put online
and not in person. It will also allow a contemporary audience to
● The costumes start all individualistic and then at the end they are all the same, this
shows that technology has made people homogenised by western values; culture and
heritage is being stripped by western values that have been enforced on people that
use the internet. --For example, someone will be dressed as a punk? Someone else
will be dressed wearing a red better with matching red kitten heels and blue light
wash tight jeans- these r of 2012 times. The will all progressively turn into the morphs
