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| Linda Bassett and Josh Williams in Linguist, one of the scenes. Photo: Donald Cooper |
Directed by James Macdonald
Caryl Churchill's Far Away was one of the most formative theater-going experiences for me (and was the first time I saw Marin Ireland on stage,) so it was a great deal of excitement that I looked forward to seeing Love and Information. It's a Twitter play; very short, rapid fire scenes cascade down at you from beginning to end in a seamless set (designed by Miriam Buether) in which props and actors appear and disappear as if by magic. It left me feeling breathless and excited immediately afterward, though now I rather wish I had a copy of the script to remind me of what happened; it's rather like just after a train passes when you've been standing too close to the tracks, at night, and you're a kid.
