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Love Letters
by A.R. Gurney Performances: Jan 28-Feb 12, 2022. Fri at 7:30pm, Sat at 2:00pm & 7:30pm (NOTE: No 7:30pm Saturday show on February 12th) We have 2 casts: see list below for specific cast performances Location: Rise Church 10445 SW Canterbury Ln, Tigard, OR 97224 (formerly Calvin Presbyterian Church) Show will be held in the Chapel Room and not the stage/auditorium Directed by Linda Talluto |
Read the Westside Theatre Reviews review of the show here!
You can read our Tigard Life article on the show here.
PLEASE NOTE:
All attendees 5 and over must provide proof of vaccination at the door and must agree to wear a mask that covers both nose and mouth at all times when in the building. All attendees must wear a mask that covers both nose and mouth at all times while inside the venue.
For a full description of the COVID protocols we will have in place for our coming live performances, please click here.
Summary
The play’s two characters are a man and a woman who exchange letters, but not marriage vows, in a complicated friendship lasting 50 years. It follows two people, Andy Ladd III and Melissa Gardner, whose lifetime correspondence begins in second grade, with birthday party thank you notes and summer camp postcards.It continues through boarding school and college, where Andy excels at Yale and law school, and Melissa flunks out of several schools. Andy goes on to be a successful attorney, husband, and politician, while Melissa, her marriage in tatters, dabbles in art and drinks too much. Poignant, romantic, and frequently funny, their correspondence follows a bittersweet path of marriage, children, divorce, and missed opportunities. It’s the life journey of two soul mates - enacted through words both written and unsaid - who share the greatest gift of all: the gift of love. As the actors read the letters aloud, what is created is an evocative and touching, but always telling pair of character studies, in which what is implied is as revealing and meaningful as what is actually written down.
All attendees 5 and over must provide proof of vaccination at the door and must agree to wear a mask that covers both nose and mouth at all times when in the building. All attendees must wear a mask that covers both nose and mouth at all times while inside the venue.
For a full description of the COVID protocols we will have in place for our coming live performances, please click here.
Summary
The play’s two characters are a man and a woman who exchange letters, but not marriage vows, in a complicated friendship lasting 50 years. It follows two people, Andy Ladd III and Melissa Gardner, whose lifetime correspondence begins in second grade, with birthday party thank you notes and summer camp postcards.It continues through boarding school and college, where Andy excels at Yale and law school, and Melissa flunks out of several schools. Andy goes on to be a successful attorney, husband, and politician, while Melissa, her marriage in tatters, dabbles in art and drinks too much. Poignant, romantic, and frequently funny, their correspondence follows a bittersweet path of marriage, children, divorce, and missed opportunities. It’s the life journey of two soul mates - enacted through words both written and unsaid - who share the greatest gift of all: the gift of love. As the actors read the letters aloud, what is created is an evocative and touching, but always telling pair of character studies, in which what is implied is as revealing and meaningful as what is actually written down.
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Cast
Andy Melissa |
Cast 1
Peter Bolger Rebecca Rowland Hines |
Cast 2
Ron Harman Virginia Kincaid |
Here's the performance schedule so you can catch your favorite performers:
Virginia Kincaid and Ron Harman
Friday January 28, 7:30 pm
Saturday January 29, 7:30 pm
Saturday February 5, 2:00 pm
Friday February 11, 7:30 pm
Rebecca Rowland-Hines and Peter Bolger
Saturday January 29, 2:00 pm
Friday February 4, 7:30 pm
Saturday February 5, 7:30 pm
Saturday February 12, 2:00 pm
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This show presented in part through a grant from the Cultural Coalition of Washington County and the City of Tigard |
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