Unit 8 love and information context

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In love and information each scene is simply given a title and no indication of a setting or place, Churchill leaves the context for the actors and directors to decide.

An example of the contextless dialogue is below: FLASHBACK
Breathe
Ah ah ah
Just breathe
Ah ah
I’ve got you, it’s all right
Ah
All right.
Thank you. Sorry. I keep seeing... I can see... I can’t stop seeing... I wish I could stop it for you.
Short of smacking in my skull.
They say time, you may be able to forget, even if it’s a long time. Once it’s in there. Once you know that stuff. 
This Dramatic Form gives the director or even the actors a large amount of freedom and is consistent with Churchill’s reputation for writing plays that challenge traditional playwriting styles.Kip Williams who help direct the play began with the rehearsals with no specific role to each actor. As a way of exploring the contextual possibilities of the scenes, Williams pulled names out of a hat to decide who would read the different scenes.When these Elements of Drama change, so too does the Dramatic Meaning. A dialogue between an elderly man and woman has a very different meaning to the same dialogue played between. 
Churchill’s playwriting techniques were developed during her involvement in the 1970s and 1980s with the alternative Joint Stock Theatre Company in England. 
The vast amount of contexts in Love and Information requires an adaptable set.

Minimal props have also been used in the scenes to create context. In various moments of the play, the props provide symbolism and give the audience clues and to have a sense of dramatic meaning to the play. 

 The main themes of Love and information are simply Love and information.
Most of the scenes in Love and Information are duologues, happening between two characters and portraying an insight into their relationship. The duologues also reveal the human need for connection and how information. 
information is essential to life and living. Love and Information makes the audience to think about the types of information we come into contact with on a daily basis, including gossip, secrets, data and facts, as well as the main subject information e.g historical, scientific, etc. The various scenes also represent the question of whether information has any value and if some pieces of information are more valuable than others.

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