Love conditions
14th - 16th February
This vibrant and incisive comedy drama about Gen Z-ers offers a nuanced portrayal of a family trying to navigate its way out of decades of painful patterns.
Love Conditions oscillates between a range of themes: mother-daughter, sister relationships, alcohol abuse, divorce, love and attachment behaviours.
Beth and Zac are in love, whatever their interpretation of love is. Their relationship is put to the test when Beth’s sister, Kelly, comes to stay for a Christmas visit from Barcelona, where she lives with their mother and mother’s partner John. During the course of the evening Beth tries to understand the root of all of her insecurities. Beth wants to know why Kelly has never spoken about their birth father that Beth barely remembers and more, she wants to know who she really is, not just the desperate people pleaser she sees herself as. Memory has become Beth and Kelly’s present reality and in order for self actualisation to occur, they must detach from the past which they associate with each other.
Comedy and tragedy blend so as to be almost indistinguishable, mirroring their proximity in life and perpetuating the key message; how theatre with its visual demands, has the capacity to show the interplay of love and loss live at the centre of the human experience.
Love Conditions was awarded the Methuen Drama Prize for best text for performance.
Written and directed by Ela Moss.
ticket information
Performance dates: 14th - 16th February 2025
Times: 8.30pm
Tickets: £15 / £12