Love

2021, Duet Live Performance

What is Love? LOVE explores our obsession with but loss of Love.  

What is love when a 3o year old with Cerebral Palsy is nearly forced out of her shared home to live in a nursing home for the rest of her life? This case is not isolated; indeed this is common practice in our so-called modern society. Rose Lawson feels it is time to tell her story, time to tell of the battle she almost didn’t win and its lasting impact on her sense of self.  

Having begun working together in 2018, writer/performer Rose Lawson and Luby have established a collaboration that sensitively handles and presents the not so glamorous aspects of their lives, in particular Lawson’s journey with Cerebral Palsy. Now with a strong sense of trust established having worked and toured together in recent years, Luby is helping Lawson tell more of her story. 

The nursing home event and the letters Lawson wrote to authorities at that time are documented in local newspapers. Can combining words from these newspaper clippings with the tunes of famous love songs rattle us so that we may come to our senses? Can the eye gaze technology with which Luby and Lawson work be fired at any movement, so in creating rigor and serendipitous moments of text and movement ‘matching’ up?  

The performances of LOVE are set on a 1950’s ‘tennis court’ in the beautiful Wirreanda Park (Buderim). An afternoon tennis match. A nod to Gone with the Wind and Scarlette O’Hara. In the umpire’s chair, a singing umpire. The game is on. If “Love” is zero Lawson and Luby wish to probe, how do we even the score? 

Artists

Fiona Bryant (Production and Performance) Rose Lawson (Text and Performance)