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Valentine’s Day: True Love Lasts Forever
On Tom’s first Valentine’s without his wife Heather he relives the day they met fifty years ago and fell in love.
10 Minute Drama – 2M, 2W, single setting
![Production Still. Les Asmussen as Old Tom, Jayden Muir as Heather, Abbie Gallagher as Karen, and Murray John Curtis as Young Tom in The Short+Sweet Sydney Production of Valentine's Day By James Hutchison. Directed by Sarah Purdue. Photograph by Chris Lundie](https://jameshutchison.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Short-and-Sweet-Sydney-2018-Wk-5-VALENTINES-DAY-1500-1024x683.jpg)
CAST OF CHARACTERS
Tom – an old man
Karen – his granddaughter
Heather – a young woman
Tom – a young man
SETTING
Tom’s home.
TIME
Valentine’s Day
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
2018 – Newmarket National 10 Minute Play Festival in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
2018 – Short+Sweet Sydney – Top 80 – Sydney, Australia
2018 – Short+Sweet Sydney – selected for Crew Cut Finals – Sydney Australia
2017 Quarter Finalist Lakeshore Players 13th Annual Ten Minute Play Contest – White Bear Lake, Minnesota, USA
2017 Finalist Minnesota Shorts Play Festival – Mankato, Minnesota, USA
2017 Short Listed for Short+Sweet Theatre Kolkata – Kolkata, West Bengal, India
2017 Short Listed for Short+Sweet Hollywood – Hollywood, California, USA
NOTABLE PRODUCTIONS
2018 – Newmarket National 10 Minute Play Festival in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada Directed by Dale Sheldrake – Cast: Dan Karpenchuk as Old Tom, Tiffany Deobald as Heather, Kyra Van Den Enden as Karen, and Ilya Iyashyk as Young Tom.
2018 – Short+Sweet Sydney – Top 80 & Crew Cut Finals – Sydney, Australia Directed by Sarah Purdue Cast: Les Asmussen as Old Tom, Jayden Muir as Heather, Abbie Gallagher as Karen, and Murray John Curtis as Young Tom.