Review: No One Else Will Ever Love You by Katherine Craft & Dan Solomon

by Michael Meigs
Published on September 08, 2009

No One Else Will Ever Love You is about coupling. Not about copulation, though the back story certainly featured that somewhere, but principally about the risks and dependencies as members of a couple negotiate their relationships with one another and with other individuals.

Offering a play in someone's house or apartment breaks down some of the conventions of theatre. There's more of a sense of risk for all concerned -- players, audience and host.In most theatrical events the audience is anonymous, a collection of shapes outside the brightly lit playing space. And most of them like it that way. The front row never fills up first. Maybe there's a latent worry about sitting within grasp of the actors.  …

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