By Tom Stoppard Directed by Blanka Zizka
February 9 – March 17, 2000
The newest masterpiece by the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Shakespeare in Love. Take a mysterious voyage into the underworld that is also a moving and funny trip through a great man’s life. In The Invention of Love, Oscar-winner Tom Stoppard explores the life of classical scholar and renowned poet A.E. Housman. Old and infirm, Housman dreams that he is dead. As Charon, the mythical boatman, ferries him across the River Styx, Housman returns to the Oxford of his youth where he fell in love with scholarship and with his fellow student, Moses Jackson. Stoppardís dream world includes Victorian London, where Parliament made homosexuality a crime, and the French seashore, where Oscar Wilde – convicted of that very crime – is living out his final days. This complex and rewarding play weaves ideas, wit, and passion.
