Love Letters- A Play
I had been to a play called Love Letters by the much acclaimed theatre group Evam. I had heard that the play was nothing but a reading of a bunch of love letters. Now that didn't inspire me but I have seen plays by Evam before and I either enjoyed them or enjoyed them a LOT. But they were right about this one. It was really actually nothing but a reading of a bunch of letters. Two actors and very little acting except for facial expressions. But it definitely was not disappointing.
The play is about two people who are childhood friends and how they keep in touch with each other all their lives through letters. Their entire lives with all its drama of love and despair are brought about only through their readings of the letters they received from each other.Though they take on different paths in life where they don't meet each other for years together, they are always connected even if it is just through christmas card. And slowly they realize how it is not just a connection, its a life line.
It is amazing how much you can know of a person in the way the write and what they choose to write about. And how even the most succinct of letters convey the deepest of emotions. The play takes you through the whole gamut of emotional upheavals that rock our life. As adolescents, young adults, married, divorced.. Things always seem so promising when you are young and as you grow older it looks like something was lost, not just time and opportunities but also the spirit and enthusiasm. The charm.
(might be a SPOILER:)
This one had a poignantly sad ending. Wish it ended differently, but that's reality. Your whole life might pass by with everything you ever wanted right in front of you all the time but you never grabbed it. In the end you feel that you had only one life and you lost out on it..
I think you can guess how it ends now. :P
I have been promised that their next play is a very happy one. And one where we will be roaring with laughter. I can't wait for it. :)
The play is about two people who are childhood friends and how they keep in touch with each other all their lives through letters. Their entire lives with all its drama of love and despair are brought about only through their readings of the letters they received from each other.Though they take on different paths in life where they don't meet each other for years together, they are always connected even if it is just through christmas card. And slowly they realize how it is not just a connection, its a life line.
It is amazing how much you can know of a person in the way the write and what they choose to write about. And how even the most succinct of letters convey the deepest of emotions. The play takes you through the whole gamut of emotional upheavals that rock our life. As adolescents, young adults, married, divorced.. Things always seem so promising when you are young and as you grow older it looks like something was lost, not just time and opportunities but also the spirit and enthusiasm. The charm.
(might be a SPOILER:)
This one had a poignantly sad ending. Wish it ended differently, but that's reality. Your whole life might pass by with everything you ever wanted right in front of you all the time but you never grabbed it. In the end you feel that you had only one life and you lost out on it..
I think you can guess how it ends now. :P
I have been promised that their next play is a very happy one. And one where we will be roaring with laughter. I can't wait for it. :)