Get Love Conditions to NSDF!

Hey there,

Love Conditions is an award-winning play written by Ela Moss. After a 3-night, sold-out run in February at the Old Red Lion Theatre, Love Conditions, has been selected for programming at the Curve Theatre in Leicester as part of the National Student Drama Festival (NSDF25). The opportunity to bring this work to Leicester is a fantastic one for everyone involved, and we are incredibly excited to bring this work to more eyes and theatres.

But we need your help.

We have had to pull the show together without the time to go through conventional funding channels. As the NSDF is an unpaid opportunity, the cost of travel and production expenses falls entirely on the production team.

We have two performances to fund:

The original production of the play, performed on Wednesday 23rd April at 8pm.

A reading of the redrafted version—now set in Wales—on Friday 25th April at 1pm.

Double the opportunity, double the travel, double the props/set to buy.

The world of theatre in the UK is wonderful and unique but it is severely underfunded. In order for our emerging artists to continue creating the work that entertains us, shows us fresh perspectives and asks us to reflect on our relationships and the world around us, they need outside support. Love Conditions is a story that we believe deserves to be told - we hope its selection at NSDF is proof enough of that. By taking this play to NSDF we will be able to perform it in front of industry professionals who can help us bring this play to many more audiences and theatres around the country.

Donations of any size would be hugely appreciated, and will be put towards the cost of transporting our actors to and from Leicester, as well as purchasing props and set.

We’ve set the target of raising £300 by Monday, April 21st, which is less than we really need and cutting it close to the latest we need it by in order to make all the arrangements. Even if you can’t spare any financial support, sharing this around on social media would mean the absolute world!

About the play:

Beth and Zac are in love, whatever their interpretation of love is. Their relationship is put to the test when Beth’s sister, Kelly, comes to stay for a Christmas visit from Barcelona, where she lives with their mother and mother’s partner John. During the course of the evening, Beth tries to understand the root of all of her insecurities; Beth wants to know why Kelly has never spoken about their birth father that Beth barely remembers and more, she wants to know who she really is, not just the desperate people-pleaser she sees herself as. Memory has become Beth and Kelly’s present reality and in order for self-actualisation to occur, they must detach from the past with which they associate each other.

This vibrant and incisive comedy drama about Gen Z-ers offers a nuanced portrayal of a family trying to navigate its way out of decades of painful patterns.

About the writer

Ela Moss is a Welsh speaking writer and director. She achieved the highest grade in her cohort for English with Creative writing at the University of Nottingham. In Nottingham she co-wrote and directed Fractured Dreams at the Nottingham Playhouse, and Mushy Peas at the Nottingham New Theatre. During her Masters at Birkbeck, Love Conditions won the Methuen Prize for Best Text for Performance and made it to the penultimate round of the Verity Bargate award (putting it in the top 100 out of 1700 plays).

‘Love Conditions’ was awarded the Methuen Drama Prize for best text for performance and reached the penultimate round of the Verity Bargate Award.

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