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 OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts