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‘Love & Vinyl’ Is a Rom-Com Set and Staged Inside Plan 9
Record stores have always been more than retail. People go in saying they’re just browsing, but that’s rarely the whole story. It’s a treasure hunt. They’re chasing a feeling. They’re hoping to recognize themselves in someone else’s taste.
That’s why Plan 9 Music makes sense as the setting for Love & Vinyl, a site-specific romantic comedy by playwright Bob Bartlett, produced by Cadence Theatre Company. The play doesn’t simulate a record store onstage. It takes place inside one.
‘Love & Vinyl,’ a play about a record store, is performed at real-life Plan 9
There’s a special kind of performance happening at Plan 9 Music this month.
Cadence Theatre Company will transform the longtime Richmond record store into an immersive stage with Bob Bartlett’s “Love & Vinyl”: a play about a record store, set inside of a record store.
Bartlett is no stranger to unconventional theater spaces. “Love & Vinyl” grew out of an earlier site-specific experiment that began not in a theater at all, but in a laundromat.
Record Store Drama
Art imitates life in a Cadence theater production at Plan 9 Music
What better setting for a play about record collectors than an actual record store? And few record stores could be more fitting than Plan 9, the venerable Richmond music hub located in Carytown. It’s where Cadence theater company will stage its production of “Love & Vinyl” Feb. 6-22.
Records and Romance
Art imitates life in a Cadence theater production at Plan 9 Music
What better setting for a play about record collectors than an actual record store? And few record stores could be more fitting than Plan 9, the venerable Richmond music hub located in Carytown. It’s where Cadence theater company will stage its production of “Love & Vinyl” Feb. 6-22.