Discuss “Alums play at Homecoming”

If your heart is beating and you’ve stepped outside your house, it is inevitable that sometime, somewhere, you’ve met someone who has made your heart go pitter-pat. But what if you didn’t have the confidence to tell this person your true feelings, and so you were left to wonder, “What could’ve happened?” This is the premise of A.R. Gurney’s play Love Letters, which will be performed at Carnegie Mellon during Homecoming weekend. Love Letters follows the poignant and often heartbreaking tale of a man and a woman who, after missing a chance for true love at an early age, spend the rest of their lives corresponding through letters, hoping that one day a letter in the mailbox will deliver a message of reciprocation.

Love Letters,...