For Valentine's Day, stories about our parents falling in love. And troubles with their love. From Hilton Als, Scott Carrier, Julie Showalter, a magazine column called Men My Mother Dated and others. The idea for this show was inspired by Delmore Schwartz's classic 1937 work of American fiction about his parents' courtship: In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories.
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Act One
Lighten Up
Brett Leveridge reads from his column for Might magazine, which he turned into the book Men My Mother Dated and Other Mostly True Tales. (9 minutes)
Act Two
Act Three
It's Not the Heat
Writer Julie Showalter on her parents' romance. (7 minutes)
Song:
“I Got a Crush on You” by Jenny Magnus
Act Four
Act Five
Parent And Child
Reporter Scott Carrier and his eleven-year-old daughter Jesse. Scott wrote Running After Antelope. (8 minutes)
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