L.O.V.E

(Limited Operations of Verbal Emotions) A production by toxic dreams in co-production with Theater am Werk World Premiere Directed by: Yosi Wanunu Four performers attempt to construct multiple love stories in various pair configurations under arbitrary formal constraints: each line begins with the same letter. From this limitation arises a fragile and unstable system, part game, part confession, part emotional breakdown. Inspired by the Oulipo movement (L‘Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle), which explored the creative potential of constraints in writing, its principles are reinterpreted for the stage, where grammar and emotion intersect, collide, and cancel each other out. Through repetition, rupture, and exhaustion of form, the participants demonstrate how language disciplines emotions, how love, similar to text, depends on editing, hesitation, and deletion. What begins as a poetic exercise gradually unfolds into an anatomy of communication: two bodies trapped in syntax, struggling to speak freely within a system that promises meaning but delivers only echo. L.O.V.E. is a series of love stories without sentimentality—mathematical, tragic, and comical at the same time. Part Samuel Beckett, part group therapy, part failed spelling test. toxic dreams was founded in 1997 by Kornelia Kilga (producer) and Yosi Wanunu (director and author). Since then, the group has realized more than 90 original productions. toxic dreams develops aesthetically and formally diverse formats through collaborative processes within the framework of multi-year work cycles. The current Rashomon cycle is dedicated to the multifaceted and contradictory process of truth-finding through case presentations. The Chosen One and Unwalling the Wall were shown at Theater am Werk.