Love, Love, Love, the latest play by Olivier award winning writer Mike Bartlett, explores whether the baby boomer generation is to blame for the debt-ridden and adrift generation of their children, now adults but far from stable and settled.
1967. Kenneth and Sandra know the world is changing. And they want some of it.
Love, Love, Lovetakes on the baby boomer generation as it retires, and finds it full oftrouble. Smoking, drinking, affectionate and paranoid, one couplejourneys forty-years from initial burst to full bloom. The play followstheir idealistic teenage years in the 1960s to their stint as a marriedfamily unit before finally divorced and, although disintegrated, freefrom acrimony. Their children, on the other hand, bitterly rail againsttheir parents’ irresponsibility and their relaxed, laissez-faireattitude.
This play by Olivieraward-winning writer Mike Bartlett questions whether the baby boomergeneration is to blame for the debt-ridden and adrift generation oftheir children, now adults but far from stable and settled.
This edition features an introduction by James Grieve, who directed Love, Love, Love at the Royal Court, London.
