{"id":797,"date":"2018-03-02T15:08:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T20:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/researchbdev.wpengine.com\/digital-computational-studies\/?p=797"},"modified":"2018-03-02T15:15:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T20:15:08","slug":"love-and-information-by-award-winning-playwright-caryl-churchill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/event\/love-and-information-by-award-winning-playwright-caryl-churchill\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Love and Information&#8217; by Award-Winning Playwright Caryl Churchill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"time\"><span class=\"dt-m\">March <\/span>2nd and 3rd<span class=\"dt-y\">, 2018<\/span> | 7:30\u00a0PM\u00a0\u2013\u00a09:00\u00a0PM | Memorial Hall, Pickard Theater<\/p>\n<div class=\"edetails\">\n<div class=\"det\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"det\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Love and Information<\/em>, a fast-moving kaleidoscope of intimate whispers, philosophical exchanges, and life-changing revelations, is Memorial Hall Award-winning playwright Caryl Churchill\u2019s meditation on relationships in digital culture. Mirroring today&#8217;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 &#8211; age, gender, race, class, and sexual orientation aren&#8217;t specified, so the identity of the speaker and the nature of the situations must be surmised from the language &#8211; but buffeted as they are by screen communication and more news, gossip, an trivia than they can digest, all are somehow our stand-ins.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Advance Tickets are free and available at Smith Union. Tickets will also be available at the door.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by: The Alice Cooper Morse Fund for the Performing Arts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 2nd and 3rd, 2018 | 7:30\u00a0PM\u00a0\u2013\u00a09:00\u00a0PM | 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\u2019s meditation on relationships in digital culture. Mirroring today&#8217;s miniscule attention spans, the play features more than 100 characters in 57 vignettes to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,23],"tags":[39,40,41,38],"class_list":{"0":"post-797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-event","7":"category-on-campus","8":"tag-information","9":"tag-love","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-theater","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}