Love Person
by Aditi Brennan Kapil

Name: Love Person
Brand: Aditi Brennan Kapil
SKU: 9780573697456
Rating: 4.44 (18 reviews)

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105 minsPresent DayEnsemble CastInterior SetContemporary Costumes/Street ClothesComedy

Synopsis

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.

Press 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

"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

"Startling and evocative!"
— Michael Opperman, Twin Cities Daily Planet

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Free 30s-40s; deaf; Maggie's lover; Vic's older sister. Uses ASL exclusively, does not voice. Restless.	female	30s	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.	—	30s	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.
Vic 30s; two divorces; drinks too much; Free's sister; some basic ASL skills. Brash.	female	30s	30s; two divorces; drinks too much; Free's sister; some basic ASL skills. Brash.