Love, Love, Love

by Mike Bartlett, James Grieve (Introduction)

Overview

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 jourbaneys 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472574732
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/16/2015
Series:	Modern Classics
Pages:	136
Product dimensions:	7.60(w) x 5.10(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Mike Barlett's debut, My Child (Royal Court, May 2007) saw him hailed by The Stage as 'one of the most exciting new talents to emerge in recent times'. He is a winner of the Old Vic New Voices Award for Artefacts (Bush Theatre). In 2009, his play Cock won the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre, while Contractions was nominated for the TMA Best New Play award. Bartlett was Pearson Playwright in Residence at the Royal Court in 2007, and is currently Associate Playwright at Paines Plough. He has also written seven plays for the radio, including Not Talking for which he won the Writer's Guild Tinniswood and Imison prizes.

Editorial Reviews

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” —The Times

From the Publisher

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

The Times

Enormously accomplished playwright, Mike Bartlett, loves experimenting with form.

Sunday Daily Mail

An old-fashioned, three-act, two-interval drama but there is nothing stuffy about this acid-sharp story of a couple who wanted to change the world but cannot change themselves.

The Observer

Bartlett doesn't just have an acute ear for the way things were, but how youth then hoped things might be, and the scene is rich with a sense of newly discovered female emancipation and budding mischief.

Daily Telegraph

Bartlett does the clash of generational world views with a devastating precision.

The Guardian

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.

The Times (of London)