I'll Never Love Again
by Clare Barron

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

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Highlights

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90 minsPresent DayEnsemble CastBare Stage/Simple Set

What readers are saying

Readers appreciate the poetic language and unique stage directions of the play. Many find it enjoyable to experience on stage, with a particular admiration for the writing style. There's a sense of camaraderie and engagement with the characters that resonates well with the audience.

Poetic and juicy languageUnique stage directionsEngaging charactersBest enjoyed on stage rather than reading

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.