I'll Never Love Again
by Clare Barron

Name: I'll Never Love Again
Brand: Clare Barron
SKU: 9780573710865
Rating: 3.85 (2 reviews)

I'll Never Love Again Book Cover — I'll Never Love Again Cover

Highlights

Female

Male

90 mins Present Day Ensemble Cast Bare Stage/Simple Set

Synopsis

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.

Press Reviews

"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

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
ONE, TWO, THREE and	—	—	and
FOUR are our main ensemble who will lead us through the show. They are part of a	—	—	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.	—	—	(it can be bigger, if you have more people), and they emerge slowly from the choir over the course of the piece.
CLARE and	—	—	and
GUY in the sex scene are played by members of the choir.	—	—	in the sex scene are played by members of the choir.
CLARE in the office scene is played by the performer playing	—	—	in the office scene is played by the performer playing
FOUR . The character of	—	—	. The character of
AMANDA in the office scene is played by the performer playing	—	—	in the office scene is played by the performer playing
ONE. And the character of	—	—	And the character of
JACKSON in the office scene is played by the performer playing	—	—	in the office scene is played by the performer playing
TWO .	—	—	.
ROGER and	—	—	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.	male	—	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.