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Theater

‘Love and Information’ by Award-Winning Playwright Caryl Churchill

March 2, 2018 By Sabina Hartnett '18

March 2nd and 3rd, 2018 | 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM | Memorial Hall, Pickard Theater

Love and Information, a fast-moving kaleidoscope of intimate whispers, philosophical exchanges, and life-changing revelations, is Memorial Hall Award-winning playwright Caryl Churchill’s meditation on relationships in digital culture. Mirroring today’s miniscule attention spans, the play features more than 100 characters in 57 vignettes to explore how we process knowledge and each other. Some are just a few lines of fragmented dialogue, others are a few pages – age, gender, race, class, and sexual orientation aren’t specified, so the identity of the speaker and the nature of the situations must be surmised from the language – but buffeted as they are by screen communication and more news, gossip, an trivia than they can digest, all are somehow our stand-ins.

Directed by Professor of Theater and Dance Sarah Bay Chen, this production features media designed in collaboration with students in Media Arts and Digital and Computational Studies.

Advance Tickets are free and available at Smith Union. Tickets will also be available at the door.

Sponsored by: The Alice Cooper Morse Fund for the Performing Arts

Karofsky Common Hour–Sarah Bay-Cheng: Love and Information: Contemporary Performance in Digital Culture

March 2, 2018 By Sabina Hartnett '18

March 2, 2018 | 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM | Visual Arts Center, Kresge Auditorium

Each semester, the Common Hour program asks members of the student body to nominate a faculty member to present the Karofsky Faculty Encore lecture, honoring that faculty member as a teacher and role model. This semester’s presenter is Sarah Bay-Cheng, Professor and Chair of Theater and Dance.

In a world saturated with digital media and technology, what is the role of live performance? When you can live-stream the world in your phone, why should anyone attend a live show? And, what does ‘live’ mean anymore? Connecting popular culture, critical theory, and new technologies, this talk considers current trends among international theatre and performance artists who focus their work on emerging digital technologies with particular attention to British playwright Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information (2012). This talk further serves as an introduction to the working process and ideas behind the upcoming production of Churchill’s play in Bowdoin’s Department of Theater and Dance, March 2-4, 2018.

This lecture will be streamed live at Bowdoin Live Webcasts

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