The Invention of Love
September 6, 2000 – October 21, 2000
Midwest Premiere
by Tom Stoppard
directed by Charles Newell
Artistic Director Charles Newell directs the Midwest premiere of Tom Stoppard's 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.
