You’d think that a play in which two actors sit at desks, never make eye contact and read a series of letters to one another wouldn’t work dramatically. But then remember the continuing popularity of Waiting for Godot , Samuel Beckett’s two hander that became a cornerstone of absurdist theater. Or consider “My Dinner with Andre, a two-character cinematic comedy-drama where an interesting dialogue at a Manhattan restaurant fills the screen with pithy thoughts for 111minutes. I’ll have to admit I was skeptical about sitting through A R Gurney’s Love Letters. Would I be tortured by another lightweight sappy rom-com or something ready for adaption for the Hallmark Channel? Would I squirm in my seat for 90 minutes of mushy tedium? Turns out not in the least! Zach Wyatt and his real-to-life wife, Tammy portray Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and Melissa Gardner, two characters who meet in grade school. Their first written contact c...
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