An Ever-Changing Drama Laboratory: Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Having staged the trend of the times quickly, Caryl Churchill thoroughly explores an era of being bombarded with information in Love and Information. The story portrays modern people who face the heavy burden of information. The work consists of seven sections, seven scenes in each of the first six sections with a title, and eight scenes in the seventh section. The sections should be performed in order, but the scenes within one section can be performed in accordance with the principles of the director. Furthermore, there are no specific directions to the frame of each scene and the lines are not allocated to any character. Due to the characteristic of such an indeterminable text, Love and Information create a completely different play in each performance where a playwright, a director and actors should collaborate base on the common creativity. This paper includes three main ideas. First, this paper explores what Churchill intends to convey through several representative scenes in the text of Love and Information, and the effects of the indefinite text on readers. Second, according to the New York Theatre Workshop production in 2014, it analyzes the changes and effects when such text is performed.
Finally, it reveals a messages that Churchill tries to give the audience with this indeterminable script and performance.

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