North

The for/word company, co-founded by Christina Ritter, lecturer at the University of Kentucky Department of Theatre, brings the original work "North," on the life of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, to Lexington for a limited weekend engagement April 7-10, at the Downtown Arts Center (DAC). This is the company's Kentucky debut.

Called "wistful, poetic, and wise" by the Chicago Tribune, "North" tells the story of a charged meeting between writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh, wife to aviator Charles, and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the man whom she felt best understood her work.

As Anne's character says in the play, "This story is fiction and not biography." Yet, "North" is based in the historical record. In keeping with the for/word company’s creative technique, "North" is constructed exclusively from Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s letters and journals, poetic memoirs, fiction and poetry, and wartime polemics. It also draws from material written by her husband, Charles Lindbergh and by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, including his poetic works on flight, his journals and letters, and his famous children’s book.