Performed and written by Amy Currie and Natalie Bochenski, Love/Hate Actually is a sketch comedy where the two try and convince the other (and the audience) to join their side. "Nat and I have an argument every year over the merits of Love Actually. In our two-woman show, we take the grudge to the stage," Currie says. "It’s a comedy showdown full of sketches, persuasive arguments and silly voices that ends with an extremely democratic (if somewhat unorthodox) audience vote."
Currie and Bochenski have worked together for over a decade, and it was during one of their shows that the two began to have a discussion about Love Actually which sowed the seeds for their show. "We were in Canberra to do some Regency-themed improvised comedy at the Jane Austen Festival (we are suckers for bonnets). Obviously, we were thinking a lot about Colin Firth that day," she tells me. "Over some very ambitious freakshakes, Nat was musing that a cruel, one-sided article she’d written about her hatred for Love Actually might make for a (cruel, one-sided) one-woman show. I insisted at once that balance was necessary, and we started scribbling."