I Want To Know What Love Is

Around the world, people love. They sing for love, they dance for love, they compose poems and stories about love. They tell myths and legends about love. They pine for love, they live for love, they kill for love, and they die for love. Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They’ve never found a society that did not have it.
Helen Fisher, The Brain In Love

Joyous. Sexy. Heartbreaking. Take a dizzying ride through love’s collision course.

Based on 800 anonymous love stories submitted by you, your friends and your exes, I Want To Know What Love Is throws a spotlight on long-buried memories, bedroom fantasies, crushes and conquests as secret confessions are transformed into magnificent declarations centre stage. This is for everyone who’s ever loved. Anyone who’s ever hurt. This is for you.

I Want To Know What Love Is marks the second chapter in the We Want To Know triptych. With a sold-out premiere season in Brisbane Festival 2014, the work had a subsequent sold-out return at Brisbane Powerhouse’s Wonderland Festival in 2015.

“…giddy and glorious, rich, resonant and compelling – a potent, physical and skillful piece of contemporary performance.”
RICHARD WATTS, TOP 10 PERFORMANCES OF 2018, ARTS HUB

“Elegant, sophisticated, heartfelt, inspiring and uplifting. You don’t want to miss this.”
XANTHE COWARD, XS ENTERTAINMENT

“It was incredibly physical…. Visually spectacular … Constant colour and movement… It’s a relationship condensed into one hour. A really joyous experience – like Valentine’s Day on crack!”
FLEUR KILPATRICK, 3RRR MELBOURNE

2019 – Australian Tour presented by Critical Stages
2018 – presented by Provocaré and Chapel off Chapel
2015 – presented by Brisbane Powerhouse SOLD OUT
2014 – presented by Queensland Theatre Company and Brisbane Festival SOLD OUT

If you are interested in Bringing I Want To Know What Love Is to your venue then please contact us for information. Archival and touring tech specs available upon request. Please email us at info@thegoodroom.com.au