Theatre / Performance

Love**work — by Arnold & Komarov Travelling Theatre

Pier 8, The Quays

Fri 6 Nov · 20:00

Theatre

About this event

LOVE**WORK is a multi-year performative project that gathers fragments of memory into a shared “Biography Of Many,” tracing the fragile relationship between love and labour. Built from stories collected in Switzerland, England, Pakistan and the Netherlands, the piece weaves anonymous testimonies into a polyphonic landscape where the intimate becomes collective, and the everyday reveals its political weight. On stage, an ever-shifting architecture of cardboard boxes – remnants of our consumer society – frames a performance in constant transformation. As Arnold & Komarov Travelling Theatre perform, CickinDunt draw live portraits of the audience, turning the theatre into a temporary gallery. Tender, humorous and at times unsettling, LOVE**WORK holds contradictions side by side: purpose and exhaustion, care and survival, desire and duty. It invites audiences into a communal space where personal histories resonate across borders, and where the question of how—and why—we work and love is shared and reimagined together. Reviews ★★★★ 'It is life itself laid bare. Yet the experience itself is also gloriously alive as a piece of art; malleable, interactive, and confrontational in a way that only theatre can be as an artistic medium.' - The Skinny ★★★★ 'Thought-provoking meditation on shame...the duo performs with both vulnerability and poise.' - The Stage ★★★★ 'The brilliance of this disarming show is its exploration of an emotion we rarely interrogate without judgement.' - Voicemag ★★★★ 'This is what The Fringe is about. Amongstly all the comedy, cabaret, theatre and musicals you stumble upon something so strange, other-worldly and weird, almost spectacular in its conceit that it'll work. And it does. - NorthWestEnd