LOVE, LOVE, LOVE

“By following the fortunes of a particular couple from the late 1960s to the present, Bartlett offers an indictment of a generation… exhilaratingly combining the domestic and the epic. His play is rivetingly watchable.” Michael Billington, The Guardian

Are baby boomers to blame for the fact that their children’s generation is debt-ridden and adrift? Love, Love, Love takes on the baby boomer generation as it retires, and finds it full of trouble.  Does each generation unwittingly disappoint the next? 

It’s 1967. Kenneth and Sandra know the world is changing and they want some of it. Smoking, drinking, affectionate and paranoid, they journey forty years from initial burst to full bloom.

The pair meet, get married, have children, divorce and settle into retirement over the course of the play. We follow their trajectory in three acts that take place in 1967, 1990 and 2011, each capturing a specific moment in family life and British politics.

Their children, on the other hand, bitterly rail against their parents’ irresponsibility and their relaxed, laissez-faire attitude.

An Olivier award winning playwright, Mike Bartlett’s play Love, Love, Love premiered in a touring production in 2010 with a new production by the Royal Court Theatre in 2012 and has had revivals in London and Broadway.

A non-professional production by arrangement with Nick Hern Books