Love and Information could hardly be a more apt title for visionary playwright Caryl Churchill’s inspired exploration of those most human of impulses: a fervent desire for knowledge, and the emotional repercussions of that learning.

Chruchill is unquestionably one of the most inexhaustibly inventive voices in modern theatre, and in typically pioneering style she has done away with the conventional architecture of a traditional play, distilling the medium into its rawest and most potent elements. Through a sequence of 57 vignettes, some lasting only seconds, others as long as five minutes, we’re presented with a fleet-footed carousel of different scenarios, featuring over a hundred nameless characters. We see mere flashes of these people’s lives, but thanks to director Kip Williams’ artfully observed placing of these scenes, in familiar social contexts, these brief encounters are able to communicate with astonishing accuracy.

Indeed Churchill allows a sizeable amount of creative flexibility in the direction of this text. The order in which each scene is performed; the gender, age and demeanour of the characters; the environment where the action takes place: all are left for the director to decide, and Williams’ highly accomplished account is impressively...