Love Letters

Theater comes to Pound Ridge!  The library is please to present a live performance of  A.R. Gurney’s acclaimed off-Broadway one-act play, Love Letters.

Husband and wife team R.J. and Tina D’Amato, veterans of stage and screen, will
be reading A.R. Gurney’s one-act play LOVE LETTERS. The popular 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 over
nearly 50 years. They discuss their hopes and ambitions, dreams and
disappointments, victories and defeats throughout their separated lives. The play
was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and opened off Broadway in 1988.

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.

You won’t want to miss this incredible theater experience!

R.J. D’Amato last appeared as Brooksie the librarian in a staged version of THE
SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION with Actor’s Conservatory Theatre. He made a career
playing John Barrymore in the national tour of I HATE HAMLET and stood in for
many famous actors as a Hollywood stuntman.

Tina D’Amato last appeared as the spirited Rayleen Browning in Neil Simon’s
rarely performed 45 SECONDS FROM BROADWAY. Prior to that, she treated
audiences to a turn as Sister Mary Lazarus in SISTER ACT, and embodied Zelda
Fitzgerald in THE LAST FLAPPER, a one-woman tour-de-force.

Please register below. Registration guarantees a spot in the program. Registration does not guarantee a parking spot. The library encourages carpooling as much as possible.