With their production of Love Letters over the past weekend, the West Elgin Dramatic Society brought to the stage a Pulitzer nominated play and two of the actors who were founding members of WEDS, Barry and Monica Snow.
Love Letters by A.R. Gurney is, perhaps, not truly a play – the two characters, Andy and Melissa, are seated for the entire performance at their separated desks, and read the letters, cards and notes that have made up their correspondence to each other starting from grade two and continuing on for the next fifty years. Though the action is completely static, the letters reveal two lifetimes – the joys, disappointments, sorrows, triumphs and failings – connected over the years almost entirely through the written word.
Love Letters by A.R. Gurney is, perhaps, not truly a play – the two characters, Andy and Melissa, are seated for the entire performance at their separated desks, and read the letters, cards and notes that have made up their correspondence to each other starting from grade two and continuing on for the next fifty years. Though the action is completely static, the letters reveal two lifetimes – the joys, disappointments, sorrows, triumphs and failings – connected over the years almost entirely through the written word.
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