For two months during the pandemic, the Australian author Trent Dalton lugged a sky blue 1960s Olivetti typewriter to a busy Brisbane street corner and invited strangers to tell him a love story. A sentimental, slightly absurd stunt – and one that could have gone very wrong. But Dalton, ever the charmer, has a way of finding the extraordinary in the everyday.
The result was Love Stories, a book brimming with intimate confessions, grand gestures and all the messy business of being human. Now, in a stage adaptation for Queensland Performing Arts Centre, adapted by Tim McGarry and directed by Sam Strong, those stories don’t just leap from the page – they explode with theatrical spectacle.
