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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 is her
brother’s mother. Someone hates irrational numbers. Someone told the police.
Someone’s never felt like this before.

More than 100 characters explore communication and our capacity for love in contemporary Britain.

More than 100 characters try to make sense of it all in Pooja Ghai’s new production of
Caryl Churchill’s fast-moving kaleidoscopic drama, exploring communication and our
capacity for love in contemporary Britain. Following its premiere at the Royal Court
Theatre in 2012, Love and Information was widely heralded as an immediate Churchill
classic, garnering a multitude of five-star reviews.

Mr. Burns, a post-electric play

Thursday 20 May, 7.30pm; Monday 24 May, 2pm & 7.30pm; and Tuesday 25 May,
7.30pm
When everything we know has been stripped away, we’re always left with a story…
After the collapse of civilisation, a group of survivors recount an episode of The
Simpsons. Seven years later, this and other snippets of pop culture have become the live
entertainment of a post-apocalyptic society which is sincerely trying to hold onto its
past. Seventy-five years later pop songs, sitcom plots and jingles are the myths and
legends from which new forms of performance are created.

Award-winning theatre maker Chelsea Walker directs Anne Washburn’s imaginative,
music-filled dark comedy, which explores the relevance of culture on a society that has
none left.