Love, Love, Love [Paperback]

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 of trouble. Smoking, drinking, affectionate and paranoid, one couple journeys forty-years from initial burst to full bloom. The play follows their idealistic teenage years in the 1960s to their stint as a married family unit before finally divorced and, although disintegrated, free from acrimony. Their children, on the other hand, bitterly rail against their parents' irresponsibility and their relaxed, laissez-faire attitude.

This play by Olivier award-winning writer Mike Bartlett questions 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.

This edition features an introduction by James Grieve, who directedLove, Love, Loveat the Royal Court, London.

Terrific dialogue and acute observations as it takes its protagonists from falling in love in 1967 to suburban squabbles in 1990 to retirement in 2011 The TimesMike Barlett's debut,My Child(Royal Court, May 2007) saw him hailed by The Stage as 'one of the most exciting new talents to emerge in recent times'. He is a winner of the Old Vic New Voices Award forArtefacts(Bush Theatre). In 2009, his playCockwon the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre, whileContractionswas nominated for the TMA Best New Play award. Bartlett was Pearson Playwright in Residence at the Royal Court in 2007, and is currently Associate Playwright at Paines Plough. He has also written seven plays for the radio, includingNot Talkingfor which he won the Writer's Guild Tinniswood and Imison prizes.