Love, Love, Love is all around at Loft Theatre, Leamington

Apr 28
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(L-R) Julien Rosa, Chris Gilbey-Smith, Mollie Dibb, Zoe Mortimer. Photo by Oliver Hindley Photography.

Love, Love, Love by Mike Bartlett, directed by Lynda Lewis at the Loft Theatre, Leamington Spa from 6-16 May.

Preview

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.

(L-R) Mollie Dibb, Chris Gilbey-Smith, Zoe Mortimer, Julien Rosa. Photo by Oliver Hindley Photography.

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 on Broadway.

Director Lynda Lewis says of the play: “Love, Love, Love by Mike Bartlett jumped out at me for its complicated characters, contemporary issues and the interesting format of intense snapshots of a family at twenty-year intervals, with the actors ageing from teenagers to adults. It swings from deeply thought-provoking to very funny, with some cringe-making comments by the Mother from Hell via numerous bottles of wine.”

Tickets available via The Loft Theatre’s box office, call 01926 830 680 (answer phone service) or email boxoffice@lofttheatrecompany.com or visit: www.lofttheatrecompany.com Free tickets for theatregoers aged 16–25 are available by advance email booking or on the night from the Box Office (proof of age required).