“Tanya, Annie and Lorenzo are at the bottom of the heap. They're young but already the youth has been wrung out of them. They've been abused, they're abusive and they're difficult to like, let alone love. But it is love in all its distorted and mutated forms that holds them together.”

With characters you would typically cross the street to avoid, Cornelius’s stark and confronting writing is powerful in crafting a fresh angle. She writes with a clear-eyed, non-judgmental regard for society's dregs. It is all too easy to find compassion for the so-called "deserving". Cornelius' skill is to make us care for those seemingly beyond the pale.

Winner of the 2006 AWGlE for Best Stage Play and the 2005 Wal Cherry Award for best Australian play, "Love" is a powerful and poetic drama that draws its audience into a world where love can make you feel human even as it destroys you. Set in a world of dimly lit backstreets and dingy squats, "Love" is a searing meditation on the nature of that most powerful human emotion and the forces it unleashes.

LOVE first premiered in 2005 at The Butter Factory Theatre in Victoria and since has gone on to tour internationally. It is critically acclaimed for its bite and unapologetic exploration into the Australian underbelly of classism, sexism and drug abuse.

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