Professor Adrian Giurgea, director of the University Theater, has just returned from Tallinn, Estonia, where he directed a bilingual production of Caryl Churchill’s recent play “Love and Information.” The cast included both Russian and Estonian actors speaking simultaneously in their mother tongues, reflecting the linguistic and ethnic dualism of contemporary Tallinn.
Churchill’s script, which includes over a hundred characters, explores the changing nature of human relationships in an era of information overload — a theme amplified by Giurgea’s production. As tensions over language, ethnicity, and nation mount in Ukraine (several hundred miles south of Estonia), Giurgea’s staging of “Love and Information” delves into timely issues key to the cultural and political future of Eastern Europe at large.