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The Invention of Love
by Tom Stoppard
directed by Charles Newell
September 6 - October 15, 2000
Extended through October 21
"...verbally dazzling...a truly affecting love story..."
--THE NEW YORK TIMES
Oscar-winning Tom Stoppard returns to Court this fall! Last season, The Real Thing received raves from Court Theatre audiences. Prior to that Court's Artistic Director Charles Newell received critical acclaim for his imaginative staging of Stoppard's Travesties.
This year, Charlie will direct the Midwest premiere of Stoppard's latest work, The Invention of Love. As sweeping in scope as Travesties, The Invention of Love also uses imagination and memory to follow its protagonist A. E. Housman, an aged poet and classics scholar, through his lifelong though unrealized love affair with a fellow Oxford student. At a time when Parliament condemned acts of "gross indecency," it was only through his poetic work that Housman could express his unrequited passion. |
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