Limited Operations of Verbal Emotions

 

L.O.V.E. is a tragicomic experiment in alphabetical desire.

 

Love has rules. And so does language. What happens when the two start negotiating their terms? Several couples attempt to speak about love, and the alphabet itself becomes their battlefield and their refuge.

 

Inspired by the literary movement Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle), the show transforms constraint into a creative weapon: logic dissolves, intimacy falters, and the audience witnesses a dialogue that folds in on itself, revealing the absurdity, poetry, and exhaustion of modern love.

 

L.O.V.E. is part romance, part experiment, and part slow-motion breakup conducted in linguistic code. It’s a series of love stories stripped of sentimentality—mathematical, tragic, and funny in equal measure.

 

Through repetition, erasure, and variation, the performers rebuild a relationship from phonetic rubble: every L, O, V, E becomes a confession, every sentence a loop, every silence an opening.

 

It’s part Beckett, part group therapy, part failed spelling test.

 

Somewhere between a seminar on linguistic discipline and a couple’s counselling session, L.O.V.E. reveals what happens when relationships are edited, proofread, and deleted, live on stage.