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Drama
Sat 13 & Sun 14 February 2010 at 8pm
Love Letters
City Theatre Dublin & The Mill Theatre
Tickets: €15/€12
Friends: Personal 3 for 2, Couples 4 for 2, Business 6 for 3
SPECIAL OFFER: Bottle of bubbly and nibbles - only €20 per couple
By A.R. Gurney
Starring Bryan Murray & Una Crawford-O’Brien
Love Letters is A.R. Gurney's endlessly popular romantic drama. It stars The Tudor's Bryan Murray and Fair City's Una Crawford O'Brien as the star crossed lovers Andy and Melissa.
Written in 1989, in Love Letters, playwright A. R. Gurney created something very accessible to audiences, performers and theater producers alike. The play simply involves actors reading fictional letters that reveal the correspondence of a man and a woman, from their childhood until their middle age.
Because the lines are meant to be read and not memorized, many famous actors and actresses of have been drawn to these "star-crossed lovers," sometimes for just a single performance. In 2007, it even enticed Elizabeth Taylor on stage for the first time in 23 years.
Other famous names to have starred in it include Kathleen Turner, James Earl Jones, Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Reeve, Christoper Walken, Stockard Channing and Jeff Daniels.
The play tells the story of Andrew and Melissa, whose poignantly funny friendship and ill-fated romance takes them from second grade through adolescence, maturity, and into middle age.
Their words are both hysterical and moving and as the play unfolds the audience comes to know both of them intimately – from their strict WASP upbringing, through later life political aspirations, love affairs, military service and artistic ambitions.
A smash hit both off and on Broadway, Love Letters captures Andy and Melissa with a precision of detail and depth of feeling only Gurney can command.
This production comes from Dublin's City Theatre who previously presented the play with Starsky and Hutch star David Soul and supermodel Jerry Hall.
A Pulitzer Prize nominee, Love Letters is funny, compelling, sad, poignant, and will prove to be an exhilarating and touching night of theatre that will stay in the memory long after the performance ends.
"Murray and Crawford O’Brien are a first-class combination.” Ireland on Sunday
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