Stories of Liquid Love

"Stories of Liquid Love" was born of an inspiration: from a reading of “Liquid Love” by Zygmunt Bauman. For Bauman, the post-modern, globalized world is characterized by relationships that establish themselves with an extraordinary fluidity, that move and flow without many obstacles. They are marked by a conspicuous absence of weight and are in constant and frenetic motion.
"Stories of Liquid Love" is a mixture of three original stories of fiction, which paints a contemporary portrait of human affectations. These stories - Dead End Streets, The Broker, and The House of the Bridge – have 13 characters in total, but were written to be performed by only 5 actors. The stories have another important characteristic: they are fragmented throughout the text. This concept was proposed with the objective of having the form of the text closely mirror the context of Bauman’s concept: the liquidity of contemporary relationships will be highlighted through the juxtaposition of each story intermingling with the other, obliging the actors, who double many roles, to pass from one character to another quickly and with ease. Exactly this speed of transiting with ease between people in real life is what this play addresses.