Love and Information by Caryl Churchill, or sexuality and gender in non-binary times
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2022-12-12
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In this chapter, R. Darren Gobert elaborates the written and performative conventions of gender and casting historically, as we move from page to stage. Gobert examines Churchill's Love and Information as it attempts to sidestep gender by not predetermining gender or character in the play's written script. Comparing the line attribution and casting of Love and Information in its British, Canadian, and US premieres, Gobert examines how these productions negotiated the play's representations, asking what gender possibilities the play offers in the twenty-first century-and what realities of gender it reflects.
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R. Darren Gobert
R. Darren Gobert specializes in comparative modern and contemporary Western drama, dramatic and performance theory, and the philosophy of theatre. His publications include The Theatre of Caryl Churchill (Bloomsbury) and The Mind-Body Stage: Passion and Interaction in the Cartesian Theater (Stanford UP), which won both the Ann Saddlemyer Prize from the Canadian Association for Theatre Research and the Barnard Hewitt Award from the American Society for Theatre Research. His other honors include a Dean’s Award for Outstanding Teaching and the President’s University-Wide Teaching Award from York University.
From 2015 to 2020, he was editor of the journal Modern Drama.
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