LETTERS LIVE (22nd March) (The Shows Must Go On/Union Chapel)****

 

By Emma 

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71G_imi-aBA 

Available until: 29^th March at about 7pm

I only watched the first Letters Live a few days ago because we didn’t know about it (it’s hard keeping track of everything) but I’m so glad we found out about this because it’s really lovely.

LETTERS LIVE (Minky Productions/Grand Temple/The Shows Must Go Online)*****

 

By Cal 

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhrFCRTIKY4 

Available until: 22^nd March at about 7pm.

Letters Live is a compilation of letters, written by people of different ages, genders and races, all in different situations. Some are from the century before last; one is very recent. The letters were originally presented in a couple of live shows with the same title and some of the best are compiled together here as part of a digital event.

LETTERS – TIM CROUCH & NADIA ALBINA and ALEX AUSTIN & NIGEL BARRETT (Gate Theatre)***

By Louise

Link to book recordings: https://www.gatetheatre.co.uk/letters/?dm_i=444W,X2F6,6D0RS4,43HU5,1  from £1

Link to book live shows on Zoom: https://www.gatetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/letters/

Available until: The last Zoom shows are on 6^th and 7^th October, but the recordings of the shows are available till 31^st October, though not all are available yet.

Warning: The Tim Crouch & Nadia Albina video contains swearing.

Letters is a very special and original idea. A while ago, the Gate Theatre did a very successful play called Dear Elizabeth, which was all about the letters exchanged between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, who were both American poets. They wrote over four hundred letters to one another over the course of several decades. The roles were played by different pairs of actors at each performance and sometimes there were male Elizabeths or female Roberts.