Love Letters at Bay Theatre Company

Love Letters

Bay Theatre Company
275 West St Annapolis

What could be more perfect for the Valentine’s season, than Love Letters, a play about a couple whose love letters carry them throughout their lives. Fated to be unsuited to each other, Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd are opposites. From their childhoods, their love affairs, their careers, marriages and aspirations, rich artistic Melissa and ambitious staid Andrew are like oil and water.

Thru - Mar 4, 2012

Thursdays: 8:00pm

Fridays: 8:00pm

Saturdays: 8:00pm

Sundays: 2:00pm

Price: $35 - $45

Show Type: Comedy/Drama

Running Time: 2 hrs, 15 minutes with 1 intermission

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Baltimore Sun - Highly Recommended

"...Because of the combined efforts of director and set designer and the talents of actors Reed and Leonard, I found Bay's "Love Letters" engrossing theater. I also gained new appreciation of playwright Gurney's skill in reflecting his generation's aspirations and his adroit use of prevalent slang, including the 1950s "hubba-hubba" and the early psychobabble of the 1980s."

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- Mary Johnson

Hometown Annapolis - Recommended

"... By restricting us to the viewpoints of its two correspondents, “Love Letters” seduces us into liking a pair we probably wouldn’t care for if they were presented more objectively, in a more conventional play. While the first half, taking Andy and Melissa from grade school through college, is mainly just amusing, the second part accumulates real poignancy and power, and the ending is moving."

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- Gerald Fischman

MD Theatre Guide - Recommended

"... A sentimental slip into time gone by with romantic notions, heart-breaking sorrow, and a great bond between two friends is the charming tale you will find in The Bay Theatre Company’s production of Love Letters. Two actors: one male, one female, hundreds of letters that cover the intimate details of their lives, their friendships, their struggles, their relationship, capturing 50 years of two people through simple words on paper. Director Alan Wade brings a stunning production of this burgeoning classic to the stage with breath-taking moments of joy, heart-stopping moments of sorrow, and gut-bursting moments of laughter. Wade transforms what could be a rather dull reading of letters between two characters and creates a masterpiece of intimacy and develops a world of moments that passed and moments that could have been all through the words of these two characters’ written correspondence."

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- Amanda Gunther

DCTheatreScene - Highly Recommended

Reed and Leonard are the perfect foils, and superb artists at the heights of their craft. Reed’s shy and principled young Andrew transitions seamlessly into a civil minded and deeply committed man, while Leonard’s wild adolescent Melissa spins out of control in a spiral that is, while predictable, heart-breaking just the same.

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- Sarah Ameigh

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Baltimore Sun - Highly Recommended

Hometown Annapolis - Recommended

MD Theatre Guide - Recommended

DCTheatreScene - Highly Recommended

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