Love Letters

When they were both seven years old, Andrew Makepeace Ladd III wrote his first letter to Melissa Gardner to tell her she looked like a lost princess. For the next fifty years, through personal triumphs and despair, through wars and marriages and children and careers, they poured out the secrets of their hearts to each other. They defied a fate that schemed to keep them apart, and lived – through letters – for the one most meaningful thing, their undying love for each other. Love Letters is the story of a love affair carried on primarily through letters, written in and about a world where letter-writing was very much an essential mode of communication, especially between men and women. This play will be presented in the traditional manner – very simply, with the two actors seated, reading from the script, as if from letters.

“Smart, Delightful and Moving”  Huffington Post

“An intimate drama. It etches a deep portrait of life’s painful vicissitudes–how it feels, to grow and change, to experience love and endure loss.”  Charles Isherwood, The New York Times