Lettice and Lovage

By Peter Shaffer

Directed by Laura Tremain-Forbes

The main character Lettice Douffet, is a middle-aged woman living in the past. She has a tendency to over-exaggerate everything she does. She has been fired from many jobs as a tour guide because, instead of offering the plain and simple facts of history, she alters them into magnificent historical pieces to make them more exciting. True to form, as a tour guide at the rather dull Fustian House in Britain Lettice decides to liven up her tour lecture and creates an imaginative and far more interesting past for the stately home presented in an increasingly theatrical manner. However, she is then confronted by an inspector from the Preservation Trust, Lotte (Charlotte) Schoen a conservative, middle-aged woman quite in tune with todayÕs modern world. Lotte is dismayed by LetticeÕs straying from the facts and fires her. But this is not the end. Even though the two seem to be complete opposites they do have one thing in common their love for history. Lotte, just like Lettice, believes that the past was a thing of beauty. With this in common, the two forge an unlikely friendship as they begin meeting to reenact historical moments in British History with comical results.

Produced by Lodi Stepping Stones Theatre at Lodi High School

Performances: February 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 2004