SOUTHAMPTON’S brand new studio theatre is to open later this month with Caryl Churchill’s theatrical kaleidoscope Love and Information.

NST City’s 133 seat studio space in Guildhall Square will get an outing a month ahead of the 450 seat main house, which opens next month with the world premiere of Howard Brenton’s Southampton spitfire story The Shadow Factory.

Nuffield Southampton Youth Theatre is set to surprise audiences with the play, exploring technology, communication and love, which takes to the stage from January 18 to 20.

We live in an age in which we are bombarded by information. Someone shares a secret. Someone tells a story. Someone can’t feel pain. Someone’s never felt like this before.

Funny, powerful and exhilarating, this breathtaking web of complex and interlinking worlds explores the question – is the overload of information affecting our capacity to love?

Designed by NST Lab Associates and directed by Max Lindsay (Consensual, Girls Like That, Monstrum), Love and Information will be the first show ever to be performed in NST City’s brand new Studio Theatre.

Max Lindsay told the Daily Echo: “It is fitting that the first play at Nuffield Southampton Theatres’ newest venue is one by its Youth Theatre, which is so cutting edge and yet written by a lady who celebrates her 80th birthday this year.

“Love and Information is that rare play which is both wise and relentlessly fresh and rich in meaning. This is a youth theatre production which is relevant and resonant for everyone.”

Tickets for Love and Information are available from the Box Office on 023 8067 1771 or online at nstheatres.co.uk.

The Shadow Factory opens in the main house on February 15 with previews from February 7.