Far away caryl churchill summary

I have neither so speedily nor so thoroughly annotated a script of Caryl Churchill’s than has proven to be the case with Love andInformation (The Royal Court Theatre, 6^th September to 13^th October 2012). Trying to retain as much information as possible about the Royal Court premiere was a challenge. Described on the back cover of the published script as a ‘fast-moving kaleidoscope’ in which ‘more than a hundred characters [played by 16 performers] try to make sense of what they know’, it is hard to (re)capture the production details.

There was both a clinical feel and sense of mathematical precision to the production’s visual aesthetic. A set that had the appearance of an all-white Rubik’s cube (designer Miriam Buether), remained constant throughout the scenic vignettes in which repeatedly changing characters, for the most part in duos, puzzled over the emotional fabric of what they know, how they know, the danger of knowing, the loss of knowing or false ways of knowing. While it was never a question of altering the cube, swift character and prop ch

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