Dear Elizabeth

Dear Elizabeth

Dear Elizabeth

Sarah Ruhl

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Dear Elizabeth

Dear Elizabeth

Sarah Ruhl

Overview

Based on the compiled letters between poets Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, Sarah Ruhl expresses the beauty in simple correspondence. Brought to life by reading Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, Ruhl maps the relationship of the two poets from first meeting to an abbrieviated affair and the turmoil of their lives in between.

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Cautions

  • Caution Alcohol Alcohol
  • Caution Mild Adult Mild Adult Themes

Details

  • Genre: Adaptation (Literature), Biography
  • Time Period: 1970s, 1960s, 1950s, 1940s/WWII
  • Cast Attributes: Role(s) for Senior Actor(s)
  • Target Audience: Adult, Senior

Authors

Sarah Ruhl

Sarah Ruhl

Sarah Ruhl’s plays include In the Next Room, or the vibrator play, The Clean House, Passion Play, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Melancholy Play, For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday, The Oldest Boy, Stage Kiss, Dear Elizabeth, Eurydice, How to Transcend a Happy Marriage, Orlando, Late ...

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