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Hawthorne Players’ ‘Love Letters’ at Civic Center will Have Audience on Stage
In a first for both the Hawthorne Players and the Civic Center, the audience for ‘Love Letters’ will be seated not in the auditorium but on the stage itself. This special production of presents A.R. Gurney’s touching and entertaining play “Love Letters” will be presented at Florissant Civic Center Theatre, March 31 through April 9.
Veteran Hawthorne director Larry Marsh has loved this play since seeing in 1993 at the Fox Theatre. He says, this production will be “a much more intimate affair” which observes “up close the lives of a couple, revealed through the letters they wrote to each other, beginning with notes passed in the second grade and continuing for over the next 50 years.”
In this age of texts, tweets and social-media relationships, handwritten personal correspondence has become a lost art. Gurney’s elegant little play takes on added resonance and relishes “these heart-felt conversations from simpler times.”
Another first for Hawthorne is the casting of different performers to play the couple during the run. The all-star couples featured include Gerry and Kay Love, Tim Callahan and Tanya Burns, Annalise Webb and Todd Micali, and Mark Lull and Annalise Webb.
Tickets are $18 for adults/$16 for older adults and students and may be purchased online at www.florissantmo.com or by calling the box office at 314-921-5678. More information about ‘Love Letters’ and the rest of the 2017 season can be found at www.hawthorneplayers.info.
Marsh emphasizes that needed for especially gifted actors, with each couple being able to trace their longing and regret over a half a century of correspondence which binds the two characters. This rest of Hawthorne Players’ season includes the popular fairy tale musical, “Once Upon A Mattress,” this summer; a poignant musical about new beginnings, “The Spitfire Grill,” in the fall and a one-night holiday treat, “Cowboy Christmas.”
