How love is spelt chloe moss

 

Chloe Moss is an exciting writer and it was a pleasure to see How Love Is Spelt return to London for a run at the Southwark Playhouse.

The play involves a series of duologues and centres around Peta who has moved to London to escape her past. However, the constant reminder of what she’s left behind sits proudly in a picture frame beside her sofa-bed, and in the final scene she can no longer continue running. 

It not only explores the loneliness of being young in a new city, but the necessity of building an identifiable image and the struggles of doing so; particularly when you are trying to bury your demons.  Moss plays with the ever-prevalent battle raging within us all - how to be seen, and how not to be seen.

Chloë Moss's play How Love Is Spelt is a fascinating and funny play, which premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2004.

Who you do not want to be and who you are. Joe, Steven and Chantelle emanate such ideas around image, worrying about how they come across when they open up and reveal their true selves to Peta.  Joe nervously laughs as he states he sounds like “a right puff”.

Steven worries he sou