Main Street Theater to Continue 40th Season with Regional Premiere of LOVE AND INFORMATION

By: Jan. 29, 2016
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Main Street Theater (MST) continues its 40th Anniversary Season with the regional premiere of Love and Information by Caryl Churchill, a whirlwind of 57 scenes about how we love and what we know. Director Philip Hays describes this unique play as an "onslaught of human moments" with which audiences will easily identify and through which audiences will readily engage with the piece.

With previews February 10 - 12, Love and Information opens February 13 and runs through March 5 at Main Street Theater - Rice Village, 2540 Times Blvd. Performances are on Thursdays - Saturdays at 7:30pm and Sundays at 3pm. Tickets are $39 - $36 (previews are $15), depending on date and section, and are on sale via phone at 713.524.6706 or online at MainStreetTheater.com.

Someone sneezes. Someone can't get a signal. Someone won't answer the door. Someone put an elephant on the stairs. Someone's not ready to talk. Someone hates irrational numbers. Someone told the police. Someone got a message from the traffic light. Someone's never felt like this before. Playwright Caryl Churchill (Cloud Nine, Top Girls) has been pushing theatrical boundaries for over fifty years. Love and Information, features 57 brief yet memorable scenes that make up a world where data inspires obsession and FaceTime conversations and selfies threaten to replace human contact. In this fast-moving kaleidoscope of scenes, more than a hundred characters try to make sense of what they know and how they love.

Most widely known for her plays Cloud Nine, Top Girls, and Serious Money (all of which garnered Obie Awards), Caryl Churchill has explored difficult territory throughout her career. As playwright Mark Ravenhill said of Churchill: "Of course it's possible to trace recurring themes in Churchill's work - alienation between parent and child, the possibility and failure of revolution. But it is the variety of her work that is most striking. As Von Mayenburg says: 'With each play, she discovers new genres and forms. She then discards them and moves on, opening up possibilities for other playwrights to explore. I think many people writing today don't even realize they've been influenced by her. She's changed the language of theatre. And very few playwrights do that.'" Churchill was also the recipient of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for Fen, Serious Money, and a runner-up for Top Girls. She won the Evening Standard award for Serious Money as well. In 2010, Ms. Churchill was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.



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