Rehearsing for “Love Letters” are Joe Blackwell of Waterville as Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and Cindy Turcotte of Bowdoin as Melissa Gardner. Submitted photo
GARDINER — The Open Book Players group is set to present “Love Letters,” a play written by A. R. Gurney, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8, and 1 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 9 at the Johnson Hall Opera House, 280 Water St.
This play, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, centers on two characters, Melissa Gardner (played by Cindy Turcotte of Bowdoin) and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III (played by Joe Blackwell of Waterville).
Using the epistolary form sometimes found in novels, they sit side by side at tables and read the notes, letters and cards covering nearly 50 years of their relationship, in which they discuss their hopes and ambitions, dreams and disappointments, victories and defeats that have passed between them throughout their separate lives.
This production is directed by Lucy Rioux, Artistic Director of OBP. This will be a fundraising event to benefit the Open Book Players scholarship fund and will be done in memory of Andy Tolman and Larry Vinal, two actors and OBP Board members who both died last fall.
Tickets cost $12 and can be ordered or reserved by calling Johnson Hall at 207-582-7144 or visiting johnsonhall.org.
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