L.O.V.E.
Based
on sonnets by William Shakespeare
Directed by Nigel Charnock
L.O.V.E. is a passionate, poisonous triangle. He loves her, she loves
him, and they both love another. Unfortunately that person loves only
himself. Jealousy, vanity, desperation and ultimately violence lead
the lovers to one of the most terrifying climaxes in contemporary theatre.
L.O.V.E. fuses the classic and the contemporary. The style is extreme
and uninhibited, while the text is adapted from one of the greatest
collections of classical poetry in English. Volcano rips, pummels, strokes
and squirms its way through to the savage passion not far beneath the
surface of the sonnets' eloquent verse.
The 154 poems of Shakespeare's original are shrouded in mystery, secrecy
and controversy. L.O.V.E. explores their expressions of homoeroticism
and bisexual desire, from the power of jealousy and lust to the waning
love of the Wills of the Mistress.
L.O.V.E. was originally produced in 1992, and won a 1993 Time Out Theatre
Award. The show has toured to the Grec Festival in Barcelona, the Wiener
Festwochen, and the first International Theatre Festival in Buenos Aires.
It has also visited Germany, Spain, Italy, Russia, Holland, Norway and
Brazil.
Bringing together two exciting forces of dance and modern theatre, L.O.V.E.
was Nigel Charnock's directorial debut with Volcano. He went on to direct
The Message and the acclaimed Macbeth-Director's Cut for the company.
L.O.V.E. opened
in 1992 and toured throughout the UK and to Argentina, Brazil, Germany,
Holland, Italy, Macedonia, Norway, Russia, Serbia and Spain. The
show was revived in June 2003 to tour to Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Read about this tour
here.
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"This
will go down as one of the extraordinary shows of the year. The entire
performance is like one long lovemaking session- and nearly as enjoyable.
It's magnificent and it isn't war." Time Out
