Love and Information : an excellent young director extracts order from Churchill’s contemporary chaos
Love and Information by Caryl Churchill. A production of the MFA directing programme in the The theate Department at the U of Ottawa
A talented young director brings order to Caryl Churchill’s purposely chaotic vision of the nature of contemporary communication in this world of digital reality. Vivi SØrensen whose work we have already seen in the new Lab O at the Ottawa Art Galery, (http://capitalcriticscircle.com/in-the-unseen-world-performing-storytelling-in-the-world-of-indigenous-peoples/) has created an ethereal setting with nine actors, constantly rearranging themselves over rounded forms that take the shape of seats and sofas and places to spread out as the individuals listen to their cell phones, or watch wrinkled and twisted images from tablets and other I- pads or technological means of communication that are projected on floating surfaces that appear to be violet, or red, or green or whatever emotional lighting sources appear in front of them. …