LOVE

Tanya, Annie and Lorenzo are at the bottom of the heap. They're young but already the youth has been wrung out of them. They've been abused, they're abusive and they're difficult to like, let along love. But it is love in all its distorted and mutated forms that holds them together.

Patricia Cornelius’s uncompromising play won the 2003 Wal Cherry Award for Play of the Year and the 2006 Australian Writers’ Guild Award (AWGIE) for Best Play. This edition was published alongside its B sharp season at Belvoir St Theatre.

‘This is theatre at its most riveting … In Cornelius’ capable hands, what could have been the last gasp of a genre in decay becomes a miraculous but painful resuscitation — pure Narcan.’ Cameron Woodhead, Age

‘Cornelius’s text interrogates [her] characters’ various wilful delusions about love with gorgeous, theatrical language (many soft, subtle internal rhymes) that remains firmly grounded in grimy mundanity. Despite the all-too-real tragedy of these horrible, pointless lives, there’s not a single note of sentimentality and much comedy amid the ever-sliding degradation.’ Stephen Dunne, SMH

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