Falling in Love With "The Invention of Love"
All art is a conversation between the people who make the thing and the people seeing, reading or listening to it. And the first time I saw Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love, it didn’t speak to me at all. That 2001 production of this eulogistic memory play about the poet and classics scholar A.E. Housman was staged by the powerhouse duo of director Jack O’Brien and set designer Bob Crowley. It ran for 108 pe…