Passion. Obsession. Acceptance. Betrayal.

Three ground-breaking female playwrights have cooked up a feast, with a trio of short plays with music that explore love in all its glorious, sticky complexity. From the boozy warmth of the social club to the endless labyrinth of the internet, this is a show about the communities we form, the care that we show each other and the love that we hope never tears us apart.

The Start of Space by Laura Lindow: A visiting expert lecturing on the secrets of the heart has a dark and unexpected truth of their own.

fangirl, or the justification of limerence by Naomi Obeng: An obsessive fan poses as her musical idol online and becomes lost in a maze of love and revenge.

with the love of neither god nor state by Vici Wreford-Sinnott: A young woman runs away from a world that doesn't understand her and finds shelter in a local social club. But will they have the heart to truly let her in?

This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at Newcastle's Live Theatre, in November 2023.

Laura Lindow is a Scottish Writer and Director who has proudly lived and worked in the North East for over 20 years. She was the Journal Culture Award's Writer of the Year 2019. Laura is Associate Director for Open Clasp Theatre Company. She also regularly performs as Clown Doctor, Dr Lulu McDoo, for Tin Arts, working with hospitalised children and their families. Additionally Laura was a member of Royal Court Writers' Group (North) 2018.

Naomi Obeng is a writer, playwright and critic. She is currently one of English Touring Theatre's Nationwide Voices cohort 2021-2022. Her work for the stage includes A Distance Between (Paines Plough, Come to Where I'm From), Jack and the Beanstalk (Nottingham Playhouse), Where It Lands (Nottingham Playhouse Unlocked Festival) and New Town Cry (New Perspectives). Her first full-length play We'll Be Who We Are was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Playwriting (2020).

Vici Wreford-Sinnott is an award-winning disabled theatre and screen writer/director from the North East and is a long term campaigner for the vibrant and dynamic cultural voices of disabled people. A leading figure in the UK Disability Arts movement for almost thirty years, Vici's recent work includes the BBC commissioned short film Hen Night and Funny Peculiar starring BBC Silent Witness star Liz Carr which was commissioned by Northern Stage and ARC Stockton. Theatre work includes Butterfly (Best One Person Play 2018 British Theatre Guide, National Tour), Lighthouse (bilingual piece in English and BSL, British Premiere ARC Stockton), Another England (National Tour), The Art Of Not Getting Lost (ARC Stockton and Northern Stage), Vote for Caliban (Northern Stage), Deadly Devotchka (Edinburgh Fringe), Moll Cutpurse: A Comedy for the 21st Century (UK and Ireland Tour). In 2021 Vici was awarded the Journal Arts and Culture Award for Outstanding Contribution to the arts in the region.