Martin Shaw as Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and Jenny Seagrove as Melissa Gardner (Photo: Paul Coltas and Simon Vail)
REVIEW: Love Letters, Theatre Royal Haymarket (2020) back 19th May
It was the New York Times who dubbed the late AR Gurney as the playwright who explored Upper-Crust Anxieties. In his Pulitzer Prize nominated play Love Letters, he uses the epistolatory style to explore the relationship between Andrew Makepeace Ladd III (Martin Shaw) and Melissa Gardner (Jenny Seagrove) who first meet and correspond as schoolchildren and who write letters to each other for all of her lifetime.
