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February 4, 2010

Gusto announces Feb. schedule

By Carl Keith Greene / Staff Writer

Passions and presidents are on the bill for London’s Gusto Theatre Company’s February offerings.

Friday and Saturday, the 12th and 13th, A.R. Gurney’s Pulitzer Prize nominated “Love Letters” will be offered.

Prior to curtain, an optional catered dinner will be served.

“Love Letters” chronicles more than five decades in the lives of its only two characters, Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III, both born to wealth and position.

Their lifelong friendship began with birthday thank you cards and summer camp postcards.

Melissa and Andrew sit at tables on the stage and read aloud their lifelong correspondence.

With their romantic attachment, their letters continue through boarding school and college and the rest of their lives, chronicling their ups and downs, happiness and gloom along with their most intimate thoughts.

Curtain is at 8 p.m. Dinner, steak or chicken, will be served at 6 and 7 p.m. and dinner reservations must be made. For reservations and more information, call 864-8786 or go online at www.gustotheatre.com.

Opening Feb. 18 is “The Four Presidents” by L. Henry Dowell.

A look at Presidents George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Richard Nixon delves into their lives in and out of the White House based on true stories.

Washington is seen by the audience through his own words and through his biographer, Mason Locke Weems.

Is he seen as a simple farmer who answered the call of his countrymen, a man with a preordained destiny or somewhere in the middle?

Lincoln’s story is of a simple, self-taught man of Kentucky who is regarded as the greatest American who ever lived.

Roosevelt is portrayed as a man of action, an author, rancher, sportsman and a man who believed his power should be used to help the little people.

Nixon’s story is based on reality. On his first official visit to Independence Hall in Philadelphia, he asked to be left alone in the great hall. He later emerged and said he had been speaking with the ghosts of the founders.

“The Four Presidents” runs from Feb. 18-21 and 25-28. Thursday-Saturday curtain at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.

The theatre is at 206 North Main Street in London.

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