Love Letters - "tender study of thwarted love"
Theatre Aezir presents Love Letters by A.R. Gurney
You are invited to our very first fundraising evening on September 23, 2023.
Come to TAP Centre for Creativity and see the exceptional play Love Letters by A.R. Gurney.
Two of London’s favourite professional actors, Rachel Jones (Stratford, Blyth) and Jeff Culbert (Port Stanley, Lighthouse Theatre) are generously making themselves available for this special evening. Your ticket price includes a charcuterie or vegan cup and a Black Walnut cookie. Beverages, more charcuterie, and cookies available for purchase. There will be 50/50 disposition and a silent auction with fantastic items such as passes to the Forest City Film Festival, art, theatre tickets and more.
Love Letters was a Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist in 1990. First performed in 1988 by the playwright himself with Holland Taylor at the New York Public Library, then opened in 1988 at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, with Joanna Gleason and John Rubinstein. In 1989 it had a couple of shorter runs on Broadway, but in 1990 its popularity really took off. A perennial favourite the world over, Love Letters has received thousands of performances and is currently back on Broadway. Its simple presentation attracts actors who value the empowerment that no memorization brings. This play is a simple reading of letters that the characters have sent to each other over the years. Its beautiful, comic, dramatic and soulful language will move you.
Here's a fun fact. In early 1995, Lynn Redgrave and John Clark, at the invitation of Judge Lance Ito, performed the play for the sequestered jury on their day off, in the same courtroom where the O. J. Simpson trial was being held.
On December 1, 2007, Elizabeth Taylor and James Earl Jones gave a benefit performance of the play, to raise one million dollars for Taylor's AIDS foundation. Tickets for the show were priced at $2,500 and more than 500 people attended. $2500 seems a bit pricey, you say. I think I agree with you. That is why our price for this marvellous evening is a mere $65.00 a ticket. And you will get some yummy charcuterie and cookies for free. Your purchase of beverages helps support TAP Centre for Creativity. Best of all, you’ll be helping Theatre Aezir pay some darn good actors to do some darn good plays.
Thank you, Elizabeth Durand
You are invited to our very first fundraising evening on September 23, 2023.
Come to TAP Centre for Creativity and see the exceptional play Love Letters by A.R. Gurney.
Two of London’s favourite professional actors, Rachel Jones (Stratford, Blyth) and Jeff Culbert (Port Stanley, Lighthouse Theatre) are generously making themselves available for this special evening. Your ticket price includes a charcuterie or vegan cup and a Black Walnut cookie. Beverages, more charcuterie, and cookies available for purchase. There will be 50/50 disposition and a silent auction with fantastic items such as passes to the Forest City Film Festival, art, theatre tickets and more.
Love Letters was a Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist in 1990. First performed in 1988 by the playwright himself with Holland Taylor at the New York Public Library, then opened in 1988 at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, with Joanna Gleason and John Rubinstein. In 1989 it had a couple of shorter runs on Broadway, but in 1990 its popularity really took off. A perennial favourite the world over, Love Letters has received thousands of performances and is currently back on Broadway. Its simple presentation attracts actors who value the empowerment that no memorization brings. This play is a simple reading of letters that the characters have sent to each other over the years. Its beautiful, comic, dramatic and soulful language will move you.
Here's a fun fact. In early 1995, Lynn Redgrave and John Clark, at the invitation of Judge Lance Ito, performed the play for the sequestered jury on their day off, in the same courtroom where the O. J. Simpson trial was being held.
On December 1, 2007, Elizabeth Taylor and James Earl Jones gave a benefit performance of the play, to raise one million dollars for Taylor's AIDS foundation. Tickets for the show were priced at $2,500 and more than 500 people attended. $2500 seems a bit pricey, you say. I think I agree with you. That is why our price for this marvellous evening is a mere $65.00 a ticket. And you will get some yummy charcuterie and cookies for free. Your purchase of beverages helps support TAP Centre for Creativity. Best of all, you’ll be helping Theatre Aezir pay some darn good actors to do some darn good plays.
Thank you, Elizabeth Durand
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Theatre Æzir engages under the terms of the INDIE 2.2, professional Artists who are members of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association.