The San Luis Obispo Little Theatre is proud to present a special one-weekend only benefit performance of A.R. Gurney’s award-winning Love Letters, featuring professional actors Ron Clark* and Jody Hovland.* A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1988, this unique and imaginative theatre piece is comprised of two actors reading letters exchanged over a lifetime between two people who grew up together, went their separate ways, but continued to share confidences. Love Letters is an evocative, touching, frequently funny tale of lifelong love, in which what is implied is as revealing and meaningful as what is actually written down.
Love Letters will be performed Friday, October 14 at 7 pm, Saturday, October 15 at 2 and 7 pm and Sunday, October 16 at 2 pm. Tickets are $25 and are available at slolittletheatre.org or by calling (805) 786-2440. All proceeds benefit the artistic and educational programs of the San Luis Obispo Little Theatre.
ABOUT THE ACTORS
Jody Hovland
Ron Clark
Jody Hovland* and Ron Clark* are the founders of the non-profit, professional Riverside Theatre in Iowa City, IA. Ms. Hovland and Mr. Clark both received their MFA in Acting from the University of Iowa and both are proud members of Actors Equity Association. Their more than 40 years of professional experience includes both directing and acting credits at theatres around the country. This benefit performance came to be through the couple’s longtime friendship with Little Theatre Artistic Director Kevin Harris. Ms. Hovland is also the director of the Little Theatre’s current production, Tuesdays with Morrie, and Mr. Clark will be directing When the Rain Stops Falling, opening October 28. The actors have appeared together in Love Letters before and offered this performance as a benefit for the Little Theatre on the “gap” weekend between the two shows, October 14-16.
For more information about the show or the Little Theatre’s 70th Anniversary Season, please contact Patty Thayer at (805) 786-2440 or [email protected].