Suffolk University’s Ford Hall Forum and Theatre Department present:
Love Letters
Starring Laura Latreille and John Kolvenbach
Thursday, January 30, 2025
Modern Theatre, 525 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111
7:00 p.m.
This event is free and open to everyone though registration is required.
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https://ci.ovationtix.com/34432/production/1226323
Love Letters, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is a funny and emotional portrait about the powerful connection of love. Two friends, rebellious Melissa Gardner and straight-arrow Andrew Makepeace Ladd III have exchanged notes, cards and letters with each other for over 50 years. From second grade, through summer vacations, to college, and well into adulthood, they have spent a lifetime discussing their hopes and ambitions, dreams and disappointments, and victories and defeats. But long after the letters are done, the real question remains: Have they made the right choices or is the love of their life only a letter away?
“A unique and imaginative theatre piece which, in the words of the author, ‘needs no theatre, no lengthy rehearsal, no special set, no memorization of lines, and no commitment from its two actors beyond the night of performance.’ The piece is comprised of letters exchanged over a lifetime between two people who grew up together, went their separate ways, but continued to share confidences. As the actors read the letters aloud, what is created is an evocative, touching, frequently funny but always telling pair of character studies in which what is implied is as revealing and meaningful as what is actually written down.” ~ Playwright A. R. Gurney.
Laura Shink (Latreille) is an Associate Professor with Suffolk University’s Theatre Department and an award-winning stage actress. Her most recent credits include the world premiere of The Art of Burning, a co-production with the Huntington Theatre and Hartford Stage Company, and SpeakEasy Stages’ Boston premiere of Potus. Off-Broadway she appeared in the New York premiere of John Kolvenbach’s Love Song, directed by the playwright.
John Kolvenbach is a playwright, whose latest play, Stand Up If You’re Here Tonight premiered in LA, Chicago, Paris, and The Huntington Theatre. Mr. Kolvenbach’s Love Song (Olivier nomination, Best New Comedy, directed by John Crowley) and On an Average Day (with Woody Harrelson and Kyle MacLachlan, directed by Mr. Crowley) premiered at the West End. Love Song premiered at Steppenwolf in 2006 and has been produced in New York, Zurich, Melbourne, Sydney, Wellington, Seoul and Rome. There have been over fifty productions in the U.S.
