Love and Information

Someone sneezes. Someone misses the bus. Someone tells a secret. Someone doesn’t go to the door. Someone left an elephant on the stairs. Someone isn’t ready to talk. Someone is their own brother’s mother. Someone hates irrational numbers. Someone told the police. Someone received a message from the traffic lights. Someone has never felt this way before. In this dizzying whirl of rapid movements, more than a hundred characters try to make sense of what they are experiencing.

‘Love and Information’ by English playwright Caryl Churchill is an unusual but deeply familiar dramatic text, without a clear plot and refusing any kind of linear interpretation. Between channel surfing and Instagram, the rapid succession of fragmentary scenes finds cohesion precisely – and as the title indicates – in ‘love’ and ‘information’, themes around which scenes and characters gravitate. It is a play written in and for the age of information (and disinformation).

Through the (de)structure of the work, the fundamental idea that it seeks to represent is the dizzying instability and impermanence of the present, on which we base our existences. The rapid technological development of recent decades has created new ways of relating to the reality in which we live, in which it appears more fragmented and dispersed, and in which the boundaries between the real and the virtual, the far and the near, truth and falsehood, become blurred and these concepts merge indistinctly.

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This is the first time that Marionet stages a play that was previously part of the ‘Reading Theatre with Science‘ initiative, which consists of collaborative translation and public reading sessions that our company organises every two months.

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Gil Vicente Academic Theatre | Coimbra

18 to 20 December 2025 | 9:30pm

Age rating | +14

Running time | 90m

Price | 10€ / 8€

Online tickets | BOL

TAGV Box Office | monday to friday, 5pm – 8pm (on event days, 1 hour before)

Production Credits

Discussion and Ideas Azurah, Beatriz Boleto, Carolina Costa Andrade, Catarina Moita, Cláudia Louro, Filipe Eusébio, Inês Dias, Joana Ferrajão, Joana Macias, Júlia Lima, Laetitia Morais, Mafalda Canhola, Marcelo dos Reis, Mário Montenegro, Matheus Santos, Miguel Montenegro, Nuno Geraldo, Pedro Andrade, Pedro Pita, Ricardo Jerónimo, Ricardo Vaz Trindade, Sílvia Santos, Teosson Chau, Tiago Santos, Zé Ribeiro

Playwright Caryl Churchill
Translation (Colaborative Translation Project) Ana Botelho, Ana Val-do-Rio, António Calheiros, Beatriz Sousa, Francisca Moreira, Hugo Barros, Mafalda Oliveira, Nuno Geraldo
Proofreading Maria Neves, Nuno Geraldo, Ricardo Jerónimo, Vicente Paredes

Direction Mário Montenegro
Cast Azurah*, Beatriz Boleto, Carolina Costa Andrade, Catarina Moita, Cláudia Louro*, Filipe Eusébio, Inês Dias, Joana Ferrajão, Joana Macias, Júlia Lima*, Mafalda Canhola, Mário Montenegro, Matheus Santos**, Miguel Montenegro, Nuno Geraldo, Pedro Pita*, Ricardo Vaz Trindade, Sílvia Santos, Teosson Chau, Tiago Santos, Zé Ribeiro
Portuguese Sign Language Interpretation Jéssica Ferreira, Andreia Esteves
Technical Direction and Lighting Design Simão Lopes
Set Design and Image Pedro Andrade
Wardrobe Carolina Costa Andrade
Music and Sound Design Marcelo dos Reis, Ricardo Jerónimo
Video Laetitia Morais
Hair Design Carlos Gago – Ilídio Design Cabeleireiros
Production Direction and Photography Francisca Moreira
Executive Production Carolina Costa Andrade, Silvia Carballo, Vicente Paredes
Communication Carolina Costa Andrade, Ricardo Jerónimo
Promotional Video Tiago Cerveira
Video Registry João Cunha

Co-production

Marionet | Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente

*Internship (Curso Profissional de Intérprete/Ator/Atriz do Colégio São Teotónio)
**Internship (Curso Profissional de Interpretação e Animação Circense)

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