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Love Person

  • Aditi Brennan Kapil
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, Present Day
  • 1M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573697456

"Kapil's Love Person is a fascinating brew of emotion, wit and intellect that challenges its audience to reassess how the form of communication shapes understanding."

Lisa Brock, Minneapolis Star Tribune

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 105 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set, Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Alcohol, Strong Language

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
Love Person is a four part love story in Sanskrit, ASL and English in which love transcends sexual orientation, physical attraction, and social structure and rests instead on the ways in which we communicate and how communication bonds or breaks us.

The play is structured around four Sanskrit love poems that influence and reflect the journeys of the characters. Free, a Deaf woman in a relationship with Maggie, accidentally falls into a deceptive email correspondence with her sister Vic's love interest Ram, a Sanskrit professor. Free and Ram discover a connection, based largely on an affinity between their two languages. As a result of the deception, Vic and Ram also begin to fall in love. Meanwhile Free and Maggie's relationship struggles to survive.
REVIEWS:

"Kapil's Love Person is a fascinating brew of emotion, wit and intellect that challenges its audience to reassess how the form of communication shapes understanding."

Lisa Brock, Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Startling and evocative!"

Michael Opperman, Twin Cities Daily Planet

"Heart-pounding attraction, intense all-night conversations... Aditi Brennan Kapil's Love Person captures the giddiness of new love affairs. But the play is even more eloquently realistic about the wear and tear that time wreaks on relationships."

Nicole Estvanik, American Theatre Magazine

Premiere Production: Love Person was produced a rolling world premiere as part of the National New Play Network's CLNPF Program during the 2007/2008 Season at Mixed Blood Theatre, MN; Marin Theater, CA; and Phoenix Theater, IN. The play was developed and first perfromed at Mixed Blood Theatre in Minnesota, under artistic director Jack Reueler, on February 29. 2008. It was directed by Risa Brainin.

Characters

  • Casting: 1M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Ensemble cast, Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle), Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Minority casting
  • Casting Notes: The play is bilingual in American Sign Language and English, and as such has specific casting requirements: Casting a Deaf woman (Free), and an interpreter-level ASL proficient hearing woman (Maggie), are the main challenges. The 3rd woman (Vic) is a poor signer, this role can be learned by a non-signer. The play also requires a South Asian male who delivers a small amount of text in Sanskrit.

  • VIC - 30s; two divorces; drink too much; Free's sister; some basic ASL skills. Brash.
    FREE - 30s-40s; deaf; Maggie's lover; Vic's older sister. Uses ASL exclusively, does not voice. Restless.
    MAGGIE - 30s-40s; English Lit professor; Free's lover. Fluent ASL, interpreting for Free is 2nd nature. When they're alone together they sign only. Content.
    RAM (pronounced RAAHM) - Sanskrit Professor from East Coast; 2nd generation, fully westernized. Here on a short visit, quiet and intelligent. Lonely.

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    Love Person is a four part love story in Sanskrit, ASL and English in which love transcends sexual orientation, physical attraction, and social structure and rests instead on the ways in which we communicate and how communication bonds or breaks us. The play is structured around four Sanskrit love poems that influence and reflect the journeys of the characters. Free, a Deaf woman in a relationship with Maggie, accidentally falls into a deceptive email correspondence with her sister Vic's love interest Ram, a Sanskrit professor. Free and Ram discover a connection, based largely on an affinity between their two languages. As a result of the deception, Vic and Ram also begin to fall in love. Meanwhile Free and Maggie's relationship struggles to survive.

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