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Zusatztext Terrific dialogue and acute observations as it takes its protagonists from falling in love in 1967 to suburban squabbles in 1990 to retirement in 2011 Informationen zum Autor Mike Bartlett is a multi-award-winning writer for both stage and screen. Theatre includes: Scandaltown ( Lyric Hammersmith Theatre); The 47th (The Old Vic); Cock (The Ambassadors’ Theatre/Royal Court); Mrs Delgado (Arts at the Old Fire Station/Theatre Royal Bath/Oxford Playhouse); Albion, Game (Almeida); Snowflake (Arts at the Old Fire Station); Wild (Hampstead Theatre); King Charles III (Almeida Theatre/Wyndham’s Theatre/Music Box Theatre, New York); An Intervention (Paines Plough/Watford); Bull (Sheffield Theatres/Off Broadway/Young Vic); Medea (Headlong/Glasgow Citizens/Watford/Warwick); Chariots of Fire (Hampstead Theatre/Gielgud Theatre); 13 (Royal Court); Decade (Headlong); Earthquakes in London (Headlong, National Theatre); Love, Love, Love (Paines Plough / Plymouth Theatre Royal/Royal Court/Roundabout Theatre Company, New York/Lyric Hammersmith Theatre); Contractions (Royal Court/Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); My Child (Royal Court); Artefacts (Bush Theatre/ Nabokov); Television includes: Life, Doctor Foster SE2, King Charles III, Doctor Foster SE1 (Drama Republic/BBC); Sticks and Stones, Trauma (Tall Story Pictures/ITV); Press (Lookout Point/BBC). James Grieve MBE is an award-winning theatre director. He was formerly Artistic Director of the UK’s national theatre of new plays Paines Plough where he oversaw 49 world premiere productions on tour to more than 300 places across the UK and internationally, and launched Roundabout; the world's first pop-up plug-and-play theatre. He has directed new plays by some of the UK’s leading writers including Mike Bartlett, James Graham, Kae Tempest, Tom Wells, Penelope Skinner, Elinor Cook and Sam Steiner. His acclaimed productions of new plays, classics and musicals have been seen in the UK, North America and across Europe. James was formerly Associate Director at the Bush Theatre and founder of new writing company nabokov. He was awarded an MBE in 2020 for services to theatre. Klappentext 1967. Kenneth and Sandra know the world is changing. And they want some of it. Love, Love, Love takes on the baby boomer generation as it retires, and finds it full of trouble. Smoking, drinking, affectionate and paranoid, one couple journeys forty-years from initial burst to full bloom. The play follows their idealistic teenage years in the 1960s to their stint as a married family unit before finally divorced and, although disintegrated, free from acrimony. Their children, on the other hand, bitterly rail against their parents' irresponsibility and their relaxed, laissez-faire attitude.This play by Olivier award-winning writer Mike Bartlett questions whether the baby boomer generation is to blame for the debt-ridden and adrift generation of their children, now adults but far from stable and settled.This edition features an introduction by James Grieve, who directed Love, Love, Love at the Royal Court, London. Vorwort Love, Love, Love explores whether the baby-boomer generation is to blame for the debt-ridden and adrift generation of their children, now adults, but far from stable and settled. This edition features an introduction by James Grieve, Co-Artistic Director of Paines Plough. Zusammenfassung Love, Love, Love, the latest play by Olivier award winning writer Mike Bartlett, explores whether the baby boomer generation is to blame for the debt-ridden and adrift generation of their children, now adults but far from stable and settled....
