$40 ticket includes - Love Letters theater show, ALL YOU CAN EAT and DRINK Jambalaya, craft made Hurricanes, non-alcohol available, ice tea, king cake, coffee, beads and celebrations.
>>>>>>BUY TICKETS>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> this is a dinner event so we'd like to have a head count please purchase tickets by Wednesday, February 3rd. buy your tickets here - https://jacobyartscenter.wildapricot.org/event-2049625
>>>>>>THE JAMBALAYA>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is an original recipe developed from a Soulard Mardi Gras tent party - made with rice, okra, peppers, onions, andouli sausage, chicken, shrimp, and crawfish.
>>>>>>>THE SHOW LOVE LETTERS>>>>> Love Letters is a play by A. R. Gurney that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. For this evening it will be performed by Chrissy Calkins Steele and John J. O’Hagan of Bankside Repertory Theatre Company. The play centers on two characters, Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III. Using the epistolary form sometimes found in novels, they sit side by side at tables and read the notes, letters and cards – in which over nearly 50 years. They discuss their hopes and ambitions, dreams and disappointments, victories and defeats – that have passed between them throughout their separated lives.
Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and Melissa Gardner, both born to wealth and position, are childhood friends whose lifelong correspondence begins with birthday party thank-you notes and summer camp postcards. Romantically attached, they continue to exchange letters through the boarding school and college years—where Andy goes on to excel at Yale and law school, while Melissa flunks out of a series of "good schools." While Andy is off at war Melissa marries, but her attachment to Andy remains strong and she continues to keep in touch as he marries, becomes a successful attorney, gets involved in politics and, eventually, is elected to the U.S. Senate. Meanwhile, her marriage in tatters, Melissa dabbles in art and gigolos, drinks more than she should, and becomes estranged from her children. Eventually she and Andy do become involved in a brief affair, but it is really too late for both of them. However Andy's last letter, written to her mother after Melissa's untimely death, makes it eloquently clear how much they really meant, and gave to, each other over the years—physically apart, perhaps, but spiritually as close as only true lovers can be.
>>>>>>>THE PERFORMERS>>>>>>>>>>>> Chrissy Calkins Steele is excited to be a part of the inaugural production of Bankside Rep. She worked in Chicago for many years as an actor, director, and teacher. Acting credits include work with such companies as Chicago Shakespeare as Lady Macbeth and Marina in Pericles, Wisdom Bridge in Kabuki Medea, Absolute Theatre in The Three Musketeers, Ivanhoe Theatre in Ivanhoe, as well as theatre for young audiences and children's theatre. She performed two seasons with the Iowa Shakespeare Festival in Twelfth Night, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, and Macbeth. Her most recent Chicago credit was this past summer in the Moving Dock Theatre production of a new play, The Anton Chekhov Book Club. She is a Designated Linklater Teacher of voice for actors, and she teaches acting, voice, and directs at Principia College in Elsah.
John J. O’Hagan has worked in professional and academic theatre for the past 20 years. John has worked with numerous companies in the Pacific Northwest including two seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival where he appeared in Cyrano de Bergerac, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew and On the Razzle. John also toured with the OSF School Visit Program, playing Hamlet, among other roles. Some of John's favorite acting credits include the one man show I Am My Own Wife, James in Time Stands Still, Harry in The Understudy, Fr. Flynn in Doubt, Hal in Proof, the title role in Macbeth, Einstein in Picasso at Lapin Agile, and Jack Absolute in The Rivals. John taught acting, directing and stage combat at the University of Wyoming for five years, and is currently an Associate Professor of Theatre at Principia College. He is proud to be a member of Actor’s Equity Association and a recommended Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors.
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