ceilherman
02-06-2006, 10:49 AM
No Strings Theatre Company presents a single performance on Tuesday, February 14, 2006, of A.R. Gurney's 1988 smash hit, "Love Letters." Curtain time is 8:00 pm. This delightful two-character play chronicles the life-long relationship between a man and a woman solely through their correspondence. "Love Letters" tells the story of Andrew Makepeace Ladd and Melissa Gardner, whose poignantly funny friendship and ill-fated romance takes them from second grade through adolescence, maturity, and middle age.
Love Letters has gained a unique reputation all over the United States and overseas owing to the celebrity casts who performed it throughout the 1990s. It is a truly unique and imaginative theatre piece which, in the words of playwright Gurney, "needs no theatre, no lengthy rehearsal, no special set, no memorization of lines, and no commitment from its two actors beyond the night of performance." The letters, as the actors read them aloud, create an evocative, touching, frequently funny, but always telling pair of character studies. The Wall Street Journal called Love Letters "the love affair of a lifetime" and "an exhilarating, funny, moving event," while Time Magazine lauded it as "one of the best American plays of the decade," and the New York Times praised it as "wittily, irresistibly moving." A 1995 production of Love Letters at the Las Cruces Community Theatre featured a different couple for each of the ten performances.
The annual production at the Black Box Theatre features a different couple each year. This years' couple are Scott Lunsford and Cecille Deason. Scott Lunsford has been seen as an actor in NSTC's "Turn of the Screw," "Proof," and "Circumference of a Squirrel." He directed NSTC's "Waiting for Godot," LCCT's "Hamlet" and "Still Life" for Aardvark Theatre in El Paso. He is currently a Ph.D. student in Rhetoric and Composition at UTEP. Cecille Deason teaches theatre at Eastwood High School in El Paso. She has performed at Aardvark Theatre and some of her favorite roles include Truvy in "Steel Magnolias" and Myrtle in "The Seven Descents of Myrtle." She was trained at Tulane University and The Acting Studio in New York and is currently working toward a Masters in Theatre from UTEP. This performance of "Love Letters" is especially significant for Scott and Cecille because they met at The Black Box Theatre during the performance of "Prelude to a Kiss."
"Love Letters" will be performed at the Black Box Theatre, 430 N Downtown Mall. Tickets are $9 regular and $8 students and seniors over 65. and may be reserved by calling (505)-523-1223 or online at http:www.no-strings.org (http://www.no-strings.org/). As seating at the Black Box Theatre is limited and the single annual performance has been very popular and early reservations are recommended.
Love Letters has gained a unique reputation all over the United States and overseas owing to the celebrity casts who performed it throughout the 1990s. It is a truly unique and imaginative theatre piece which, in the words of playwright Gurney, "needs no theatre, no lengthy rehearsal, no special set, no memorization of lines, and no commitment from its two actors beyond the night of performance." The letters, as the actors read them aloud, create an evocative, touching, frequently funny, but always telling pair of character studies. The Wall Street Journal called Love Letters "the love affair of a lifetime" and "an exhilarating, funny, moving event," while Time Magazine lauded it as "one of the best American plays of the decade," and the New York Times praised it as "wittily, irresistibly moving." A 1995 production of Love Letters at the Las Cruces Community Theatre featured a different couple for each of the ten performances.
The annual production at the Black Box Theatre features a different couple each year. This years' couple are Scott Lunsford and Cecille Deason. Scott Lunsford has been seen as an actor in NSTC's "Turn of the Screw," "Proof," and "Circumference of a Squirrel." He directed NSTC's "Waiting for Godot," LCCT's "Hamlet" and "Still Life" for Aardvark Theatre in El Paso. He is currently a Ph.D. student in Rhetoric and Composition at UTEP. Cecille Deason teaches theatre at Eastwood High School in El Paso. She has performed at Aardvark Theatre and some of her favorite roles include Truvy in "Steel Magnolias" and Myrtle in "The Seven Descents of Myrtle." She was trained at Tulane University and The Acting Studio in New York and is currently working toward a Masters in Theatre from UTEP. This performance of "Love Letters" is especially significant for Scott and Cecille because they met at The Black Box Theatre during the performance of "Prelude to a Kiss."
"Love Letters" will be performed at the Black Box Theatre, 430 N Downtown Mall. Tickets are $9 regular and $8 students and seniors over 65. and may be reserved by calling (505)-523-1223 or online at http:www.no-strings.org (http://www.no-strings.org/). As seating at the Black Box Theatre is limited and the single annual performance has been very popular and early reservations are recommended.