Babes in arms welcome at 5.30pm performance.

One morning, as I was writing, I suddenly understood that as a species, through incredible stubbornness, we were able to write love into our genetic makeup, and that this was enough to redeem us all. We were given mouths to bite with, and with deep intelligence and beauty, we learned to kiss each other.

Part performance lecture, part auto-fictional memoir, Divine Invention is Sergio Blanco’s attempt to say something new about love. To do so, he recalls his own experiences of love, true and invented, and explores the history of love in art, literature, music, and science, The result is a life-affirming new play.

Written by acclaimed Franco-Uruguayan playwright Sergio Blanco (Thebes Land, The Rage of Narcissus, When You Pass Over My Tomb) and translated by his long-time collaborator Daniel Goldman.

Selected by the Stage as a top pick at Edinburgh Fringe 2024.