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- “About oppressed peoples and those who are free...The Letter Writer is a powerful play...”
A young exile engages the services of a professional ‘Letter Writer' to write love letters to the wife he has left behind, and to assist him in an application for political asylum. Fascinated by the energy and idealism of the young exile, the Letter Writer finds both a new lease of life and the son he never had. But the arrival of a letter soon shatters everything.
Both a suspense story and a transcendent love story, The Letter Writer affirms the power of the human spirit and the longevity of love. Blending themes of exile with ideas about the power of language, it explores the lies we tell to avoid facing reality.
New Zealander Juliet O'Brien has been working as a director in France for the past 10 years. Following the play's success in France, she returns to New Zealand for Festival 2010 with a production featuring French and New Zealand artists.
Image: Philipe Lacombe
More Info
- Article: Review: The Letter Writer
- Article: Review: The Letter Writer
- Article: Review: The Letter Writer
Review
The Dominion Post Mar 9, 2010
There is nothing quite as pleasurable as sitting in a theatre where 200 individuals are made one while in the thrall of a play and all the elements of theatre coalesce in such a way that you know nothing will break the spell.
www.artshub.com.au Mar 9, 2010
Created in collaboration with France’s Plateforme Théâtre in 2008, The Letter Writer is O’Brien’s theatrical return to her Kiwi homeland and tells the story of a young man desperate to make a better life for himself by leaving his country for another.
www.scoop.co.nz Mar 8, 2010
Expecting a tense, serious story of a man seeking political asylum and yearning for the wife he left behind, the comedic elements of the performance provided a nice buffer between the more intense scenes.
