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Dear Elizabeth

Sarah Ruhl author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:22nd Jan '19

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A play created out of the letters of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, two of America’s most brilliant poets, by Susan Smith Blackburn award winner Sarah Ruhl.

Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell were two of America’s most brilliant poets. Throughout their lifetime, they wrote over 400 letters to each other; spanning decades, continents, political eras. Their connection was messy and profound, platonic yet romantic, intense and intangible. A love that resists easy definition. These are their words. Susan Smith Blackburn award winner Sarah Ruhl has crafted a stunning and quietly bold piece of theatre about what it means to love someone, and all the questions we regret never asking.

???? ‘Tender and devastating’ * The Independent *
???? ‘Poets bare their souls in a lyrical show’ * The Guardian *
???? ‘As much about the nature of creativity as it is about the multifariousness of human connection’ * – The Stage *
???? ‘Poetical treasure hunt each night’ * – Time Out *

ISBN: 9781786827265

Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 5mm

Weight: 113g

104 pages