LOVE LETTERS
Directed by Dominée Muller-Kimball
Two performances only:
Sunday, February 12 - 2:30 p.m.
Featuring Al Muller and Bobbie Wallinger
Sunday, February 19 - 2:30 p.m.
Featuring Kevin and Elizabeth Costello
The Pulitzer Prize-nominated Love Letters by A.R. Gurney is a charming play detailing a 50-year relationship between two
individuals as told in the correspondence they have with each other throughout their lives.
First produced at Connecticut’s Long Wharf Theatre in 1988, it has over the years starred such luminaries as: John
Rubenstein, Stockard Channing, Kathleen Turner, Christopher Walken, Swoosie Kurtz, Richard Thomas, Elaine Stritch, Cliff
Robertson, Colleen Dewhurst, Jason Robards, and many others.
The story centers on Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and his friend, Melissa Gardner, played by Al Muller and Bobbie
Wallinger on February 12, and Kevin and Elizabeth Costello on February 19. Though both come from the same upper
middle class background, Andrew and Melissa are exact opposites in personality. Andrew is a staid, no-nonsense,
play-by-the-rules kind of guy, even at the early age of seven, while Melissa is impulsive, impetuous and lively. Through
their letters to each other, beginning with simple birthday thank-you notes and summer camp postcards and progressing
to their adult lives, we learn more and more about the subtle differences in their upbringings, personalities and
perspectives on life.
Yet despite their differences, the two are drawn to each other, keeping up a correspondence that lasts over 50 years.
Andrew graduates from Yale, marries, and becomes a lawyer and senator. Melissa is an artist who also marries and
divorces, has a drinking problem, is estranged from her family, and seems always in search of herself. Over the years, their
letters to each other become a source of consternation, inspiration, comfort, and love. These two opposites seem to
complete each other.
This special presentation of Love Letters is a fundraiser for Stockton Civic Theatre. Tickets are $20. Call the Box Office
Tuesday-Friday, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. at (209) 473-2424, or order online.
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