A N O T F R O M L O V E S O N G ' S D I R E C T O R

Traditionally, directors find a script they love and hope ACT's Play Selection Committee loves it, too. But, occasionally, a script comes along that sells itself. ACT chose Lovesong without an attached director. When I read the script, I knew I had to make a pitch. The scenes are, to put it simply, so honest. To our great luck, the talented actors in these roles leapt in. Everyone, including the stage manager, choreographer, lighting and sound crews came in committed to this production. It hasn't been easy, and we were flying without a net. Abi Morgan has written a lot for film, but we didn't have a lot to go on by way of stage notes or set design. All we knew was that, like a marriage that lasts, the play had to keep moving. This play is seamless, as the action needed to be. Like T. S. Eliot's poem, this is a cobble of small moments that make a life; there are very few big scenes in the show. It has been sweet, between those of us married for decades, to see our love lives in this production. Love is not always proclaimed from a mountain top. A long love is made of thousands of "good mornings" and midnight snacks. It is "decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse... for (we) have known them already, known them all; (we) have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, (we) have measured out (our) lives with coffee spoons."

Peg Tribert, Director

Abi Morgan's Lovesong is the engaging story of one couple, told from two different points in their lives - as young lovers in their 20s and as worldly companions looking back on their relationship. Their past and present lives collide on stage in this beautifully choreographed tale. All relationships have their ups and downs, and the optimism of youth becomes the wisdom of experience. Lovesong shows that love is a leap of faith, and when the human body begins to fail, love does not.