The Chocolate Church Arts Center is marking the Valentine’s Day holiday with a performance of “Love Letters.”

The show begins at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 14, in Chocolate Church Annex, located at 804 Washington St.

Jim and Phyllis McQuaide bring Melissa and Andy to life as they chronicle two people who form a bond early in their lives that survives their being directed along different paths and into divergent careers and separate love lives. They grow up exchanging the letters that form the story’s script, and through those letters, their very different lives come back together in later years when they can no longer hide or deny their love for one another.

The audience plays a silent witness to the development of these characters as they meet the challenges of modern life while never completely losing the bond they formed as children.

The McQuaides have performed this play three times previously for a community theater in Minnesota. The play is truly a masterpiece of American theater hidden in a very simple form of human communication — letters.

Tickets are $10 in advance or $12 at the door. They are available at chocolatechurcharts.org or by calling the Chocolate Church box office at (207) 442-8455.