Eight actors take on 100-role challenge

How do you rehearse for a part when you don’t know which character you are playing?
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Rehearsals begin on Love and Information. Photo by Sarah Walker.

English playwright Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information presents a fascinating challenge for director Kip Williams. Heading up the creative team for a Malthouse Theatre/STC co-production of this  critically acclaimed play about love in the digital age, Williams has cast eight actors – none of whom know exactly which of more than 100 roles they will be playing.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts