Courtship and Valentine's Day

Courtship and Valentine's Day
Kennedy Center American College Theater Fest
January 9, 2010 • 8:00pm
General Admission Tickets: $10

Written by: Horton Foote
Directed by: David Lutz
Presented by: University of Evansville

In his nine-play epic, The Orphans’ Home Cycle, Foote delves into the lives of ordinary people struggling to bear the weight of life’s adversities and skillfully shows us the resilience of the human spirit. Woven from the second installment of the cycle, this two-play marriage centers around two young sweethearts and marks the beginning of a grand love story.

“Horton Foote chronicled a wistful American odyssey through the 20th century in plays and films mostly set in a small town in Texas and left us a literary legacy as one of the country’s foremost storytellers.”
Wilborn Hampton, The New York Times


Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival
Started in 1969 by Roger L. Stevens, the Kennedy Center's founding chairman, the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) is a national theater program involving 18,000 students from colleges and universities nationwide which has served as a catalyst in improving the quality of college theater in the United States. The KCACTF has grown into a network of more than 600 academic institutions throughout the country, where theater departments and student artists showcase their work and receive outside assessment by KCACTF respondents.

The goals of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival are:

* to encourage, recognize, and celebrate the finest and most diverse work produced in university and college theater programs;
* to provide opportunities for participants to develop their theater skills and insight; and achieve professionalism;
* to improve the quality of college and university theater in America;
* to encourage colleges and universities to give distinguished productions of new plays, especially those written by students; the classics, revitalized or newly conceived; and experimental works.

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