LOVE – Rachel Chant

Tanya, Annie and Lorenzo desperately seek love in a loveless world. Shackled by grinding poverty and substance abuse, they’re difficult to like, let alone love. Abused and abusive, it is love in all its distorted and mutated forms that holds them together.

A modern Australian classic by Patricia Cornelius, one of Australia’s most awarded and innovative playwrights, Love won the 2004 Wal Cherry Award for Play of the Year and the 2006 Awgie Award for Stage.

An unapologetic, passionate and searing exploration of love, Rachel Chant directed the Sydney mainstage premiere for Darlinghurst Theatre Company in November 2018.

NOMINATED: NORMAN KESSELL MEMORIAL AWARD FOR THE MOST OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE (ANNA SAMSON)

“75 minutes of astonishing theatre. Recommended without reservation. ★★★★” Diana Simmonds – Stage Noise

“Magnificent direction by Rachel Chant turns this desolate tale into incredibly compelling theatre… Chant’s exhilarating rigour from beginning to end insists on our engagement… a relentlessly provocative show.” Suzy Wrong – SuzyGoesSee

“As ethereal, undefinable and big as the word itself… this production will bite you, hard, then gnaw at your world view. ★★★★.5“ Judith Greenaway – ArtsHub

Darlinghurst Theatre Company
Eternity Playhouse
16 November – 9 December 2018

Written by PATRICIA CORNELIUS
Directed by RACHEL CHANT

Cast: ROSE RILEY, ANNA SAMSON, HOA XUANDE

Production Design by ELLA BUTLER
Sound Design and Composition by NATE EDMONDSON
Lighting Design by SIAN JAMES HOLLAND
Stage Management by RYAN TATE
Assistant Directed by HANNAH GOODWIN
Vocal Coaching by LINDA NICHOLLS-GIDLEY

Production Photography by Robert Catto