The Invention of Love
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Opened Mar 29, 2001
Closed Jun 30, 2001
Opened Mar 29, 2001
Closed Jun 30, 2001
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The Invention of Love, by Tom Stoppard, is the timeless tale of A.E. Housman, one of the greatest English poets of the 19th century. It was only through deeply melancholy works that Housman could express his lifelong unrequited passion for a fellow student at Oxford, Moses Jackson. Stoppard's story begins with Housman old and infirm, dreaming he is dead and being ferried across the river Styx by the mythical boatman Charon. Along the way, he returns to the Oxford of his youth, at a time when Parliament has condemned acts of "gross indecency." He also visits the French seashore, where Oscar Wilde is living out his final days. Jack O'Brien directs Richard Easton and Robert Sean Leonard as Housman at different ages.
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Although Tom Stoppard is something of a Clever Clive, it's curious that his real topic is so frequently missed--or, if not entirely overlooked, then regarded as being of negligible importance. Yes, he often seems occupied with the life of the mind and is quicker with the quips than almost any playwright living or dead, but what has increasingly concerned him as he's gotten older are the heart's passions. In his supernal Arcadia there is ceaseless talk of Fermat's Theorem; but humanity's ability to make honest expressions of love is what he's primarily concerned with, as the final-curtain lovers waltz attests. He takes up the same subject--even slots it into his title--with The Invention o[...]