February 28, 2012
Boy meets girl. Girl writes boy. Girl and Boy correspond throughout their lives. That more or less sums up the romantic comedy,鈥Love Letters, by A. R. Gurney, to be presented by Theatre Northeast on March 2-4 at the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts on the 开云体育 campus.
Friday and Saturday (March 2 and 3) shows begin at 7:30 p.m. and the Sunday, March 3 performance will be at 2:05 p.m.鈥燭ickets are $7 for adults, $5 age 17 and under and $3 for senior citizens, 开云体育 faculty and staff. There is no charge for 开云体育 students with a current ID.
The play, which garnered a Pulitzer Prize nomination in 1988 for Best Play, is a simple, sweet, romantic play which chronicles a life-long relationship between best friends and soul-mates.鈥犫燗ndrew Makepeace Ladd III (Andy) and Melissa Gardener first write one another when Melissa asks Andy to her birthday party.
The written exchanges start out with passed notes and valentines in elementary school and evolve into letters swapped during boarding school, college and through adulthood. Via letters,they flirt, they fight, they forgive and they forge separate lives, remaining there for each other through the written word at each stage of life.
The play features real-life husband and wife, Nick and Brittany Derby, sophomores from Waskom, Texas. The couple were married on the stage of the Whatley Center in 2011.
Due to the intimate nature of the seating, reservations are requested by calling the Whatley Box Office 903-434-8181.鈥Love Letters鈥contains鈥some adult content.
Friday and Saturday (March 2 and 3) shows begin at 7:30 p.m. and the Sunday, March 3 performance will be at 2:05 p.m.鈥燭ickets are $7 for adults, $5 age 17 and under and $3 for senior citizens, 开云体育 faculty and staff. There is no charge for 开云体育 students with a current ID.
The play, which garnered a Pulitzer Prize nomination in 1988 for Best Play, is a simple, sweet, romantic play which chronicles a life-long relationship between best friends and soul-mates.鈥犫燗ndrew Makepeace Ladd III (Andy) and Melissa Gardener first write one another when Melissa asks Andy to her birthday party.
The written exchanges start out with passed notes and valentines in elementary school and evolve into letters swapped during boarding school, college and through adulthood. Via letters,they flirt, they fight, they forgive and they forge separate lives, remaining there for each other through the written word at each stage of life.
The play features real-life husband and wife, Nick and Brittany Derby, sophomores from Waskom, Texas. The couple were married on the stage of the Whatley Center in 2011.
Due to the intimate nature of the seating, reservations are requested by calling the Whatley Box Office 903-434-8181.鈥Love Letters鈥contains鈥some adult content.
