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ISBN: 978-0-573-69745-6
Aditi Brennan Kapil
Dramatic Comedy
1m, 3f
Interior
Love Person is a four part love story in Sanskrit, ASL
and English in which love transcends sexual orientation,
physical attraction, and social structure and rests
instead on the ways in which we communicate and how
communication bonds or breaks us. The play is structured
around four Sanskrit love poems that influence
and reflect the journeys of the characters. Free, a Deaf
woman in a relationship with Maggie, accidentally falls
into a deceptive email correspondence with her sister
Vic's love interest Ram, a Sanskrit professor. Free and
Ram discover a connection, based largely on an affinity
between their two languages. As a result of the deception,
Vic and Ram also begin to fall in love. Meanwhile
Free and Maggie's relationship struggles to survive.
“Kapil’s Love Person is a fascinating brew of emotion,
wit and intellect that challenges its audience to reassess
how the form of communication shapes understanding.”
—Lisa Brock, Minneapolis Star Tribune “Startling
and evocative!” —Michael Opperman, Twin Cities Daily
Planet “Heart-pounding attraction, intense all-night
conversations - Aditi Brennan Kapil’s Love Person
captures the giddiness of new love affairs. But the play is
even more eloquently realistic about the wear and tear
that time wreaks on relationships.” —Nicole Estvanik,
American Theatre Magazine, July 2008
FEE: $75.00 per performance Click below for additional materials:
Love Person (Logo Pack) Character Descriptions: VIC – 30s, two divorces, drinks too much. Free’s sister. Some basic ASL skills, brash
FREE – 30s-40s, Deaf, Maggie’s lover, Vic’s older sister. Uses ASL exclusively, does not voice, restless
MAGGIE – 30s-40s, English Lit professor, Free’s lover. Fluent ASL, interpreting for Free is second nature. When they’re alone together they sign only, content
RAM (pronounced “Raahm”) – Sanskrit Professor from East Coast, Second generation, fully westernized. Here on a short visit, quiet and intelligent, lonely
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