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I'll Never Love Again

  • Clare Barron
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
  • 2M, 2F, 8M or F
  • ISBN: 9780573710865

In this deeply personal chamber play, a choir stages and sings entries from the author's teenage diary, knitting an affecting theatrical portrait exploring body image, intimacy and love.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings, Bare Stage/Simple Set
  • Cautions: Intense Adult Themes, Strong Language

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
I'll Never Love Again is a theatrical chamber piece about first love, first heartbreak and how those early teenage experiences haunt the rest of our lives – created from the playwright's actual high school diary. It's performed by a chorus of 12+ people, and it ends in late-night coffee, fellowship and music.
REVIEWS:

"As I’ll Never Love Again suggests so compassionately, the enigmas of the hearts and loins persist throughout our lives."

 The New York Times

"As the three movements lock solidly together, they assemble into a kind of machine for empathy. Barron uses the tingling embarrassment of actual confession to teach us to watch the conventional scene with heightened senses; we're shaken from our usual attitudes toward theatrical playacting."

 Time Out NY

"Poignantly, the journals emphasize themes that remain important in Barron’s work: the intractability of emotion, the hazards of the body, the power and absurdity of desire."

 The New Yorker

"A new work... with which anyone who struggled with the anguishing mysteries of sex and love during adolescence is guaranteed to identify."

 The New Yorker

Premiere Production: I'll Never Love Again premiered at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn, NY in February of 2016, under the direction of Michael Leibenluft.

Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 2F, 8M or F
  • Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Ensemble cast, Flexible casting, Room for Extras, Roles for Multicultural Casting, Expandable casting

  • This piece is to be performed by a diverse ensemble of all ages. All genders, all races, all backgrounds, all bodies, all sexualities, all souls.

  • ONE, TWO, THREE and FOUR are our main ensemble who will lead us through the show. They are part of a twelve-person choir (it can be bigger, if you have more people), and they emerge slowly from the choir over the course of the piece.

  • The characters of CLARE and GUY in the sex scene are played by members of the choir.

  • The character of CLARE in the office scene is played by the performer playing FOUR. The character of AMANDA in the office scene is played by the performer playing ONE. And the character of JACKSON in the office scene is played by the performer playing TWO.

  • ROGER and OONA are new actors, not in the choir, who appear for the first time in the office scene. Oona should be played by a real 8th-grader.

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