Love And Information
28 June 2026
Drayton Arms Theatre
3.0 out of 5.0 stars
Love And Information is currently running at the Drayton Arms Theatre, hosting one more performance tonight. The 2012 play by Caryl Churchill feels strangely more applicable today than it was 14 years ago, with technology having developed leaps and bounds and fully taken over our everyday lives. The play is structured in seven sections, each consisting of a number of short sketches that can be arranged in any order within their section, and all revolving around the human connection to technology, for the better or the worse.
A cast of six takes on a myriad of different characters in this revolving door of short scenes, bringing an absolute whirlwind of energy-shifting adaptability to the stage. Each scene is entirely different that its predecessor, ranging from just a few seconds to several minutes, each examining a part of the human condition in one way or another.
While the presentation is very well done, and all six players have incredible grasp of the plethora of characters they each have to present, the play seems to lack a general through-thread or discernible narrative. Each scene has its own appeal, some being incredibly intriguing and leaving the audience wanting to know more about its characters and their lives, others whizz by at lightning speed barely giving time to take it all in. It’s a fascinating set-up, reminding very much of modern tiktok doom-scrolling, which wasn’t quite around yet when the play was written, but feels like an inevitable development seeing as Churchill wrote a similar quick fix of mini-scenes almost a decade and a half ago. In a way, this similarity makes Love and Information even more captivating in our modern world of short-form content. However, somehow this show didn’t quite come together for me in its entirety, though this is much more down to the script itself than the presentation.
