Love In The Fantasticks

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The Fantasticks is a show of love, loss, and pure comedy. It tells the story of young Matt (Pedar B. Bate) and Luisa (Clare H. Eisentrout), being kept at bay by a wall built by their two fathers, Hucklebee and Bellomy (Lynn Robert Berg III and Justin Ness). The two nevertheless devise a plan to meet and fall in love. Hucklebee and Bellomy, meanwhile, are patting each other on the back, for they have successfully fabricated a false feud between the families in order to attain a marriage between the two best friend’s exceedingly disobedient children. In order to achieve the engagement, the fathers hire a “professional abductor” - who also doubles as the narrator for the entire production- to set the imagined scene, convincing the young lovers

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