LOVE TRADE is an exploration of gender and cultural assumptions in upheaval. The piece uncovers a love tangle between the Western goddess Demeter – frozen in eternal springtime – and Persephone – her restless daughter – who wanders away from the ‘Upper World.’ Somewhere in ‘No-Man’s Land’ she meets her soul mate who she takes to be the Eastern god, Shiva – intense and mysterious – and is immediately attracted to his exotic ‘otherness.’ All three descend into the ‘Underworld’; two emerge transformed.