GRAB your girlfriends, sisters, mums and daughters and enjoy a night out exploring love and friendship, challenging the notion of the imporantance of finding ‘one true love’.
Writer Clementine Ford and musician Libby O’Donovan come together for the charming scripted secular cabaret-style sermon ‘Love Sermon’.
Touching on matters of the heart, it looks at all the ways that love manifolds into our lives.
Chatting with GC&M News, Clementine shared the show, adapted from her 2021 book ‘How We Love: Notes on a life’, came about through the cancellation of events during the height of Covid lockdowns in Victoria with the idea to write a show which was fun and secular, providing a sermon on love in all forms.
“While having lunch one day with my good friend Libby, I asked if she’d like to perform on stage with me and together we’ve created this wonderful show that really encapsulates love,” Clementine shared.
Clementine’s friendship with Libby is extensive. In fact, she recognises Libby as one of her life long loves.
And it is through this deep connection and love for each other, not in the romantic sense but rather a sense longevity, mutual respect and friendship, that Clementine said the audience will come to experience the profound importance of love in all aspects of life.
“One of the problems we have [in society] is that when we talk about love, there’s the expectation of it being romantic love,” she said.
“Most people don’t find romantic love, but there are all the other powerful relationships throughout our lives and truth is, some of our greatest loves won’t be romantic at all.
“I challenge the notion of a relationship, they have a timeline. Every moment of our time is how much we give.”
Love Sermon will, with women in particular, solidify the concept of life loves, with Clementine sharing that while audiences won’t know what to expect in terms of added non-scripted conversation, they should expect to be “baptised in love and friendship”.
“We encourage people to laugh, cry, cheer and sing along,” she said.
“Love Sermon is meant to uplift and it feels like a really beautiful experience.”
In their only Sunshine Coast performance, Clementine and Libby take to the stage at the Maleny Community Centre on Thursday, November 3 from 7-9pm.
Tickets available at https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing?eid=950751&