Darren Rapier

Extensions of Love Darren Rapier

A play for two actors, written by Darren Rapier from an original concept by Stuart Murdoch. EXTENSIONS OF LOVE examines the effects of erotomania, or psychoses passionalle: The obsessive relational intrusion of one person to the detriment of another. LENA KERN is a relatively successful outgoing person. She is not a superstar, a celebrity or in charge of a large corporate organisation. She is merely the object of AMANDA JUDD's affection. But that affection is all consuming. Through that alone LENA loses her job, her relationship, her friends and even her own sense of who she is. Their lives are fused beyond separation, the events pull both of them from the world they know, to where priorities and routines are distorted beyond recognition. The thoughts and feelings provoked are way beyond friendship, concern or even hatred, they are pathological extensions of love.