Glen Arbor Players Read ‘Love Letters’

Glen Arbor Players presents A.R. Gurney’s “Love Letters,” a two-person play about the lifelong friendship between characters Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and Melissa Gardner.

The play, directed by Teddy House, is in correspondence form. Andy and Melissa read the letters, cards, and notes they’ve written to each other over a half-century, beginning in the second grade. These are not brief texts with three-letter abbreviations and emoji’s but letters written by hand, on paper, stamped, and sent in the mail.

“My father says everyone should write letters as much as they can,” in one letter Andy tells Melissa. “It’s a dying art. He says letters are a way of presenting yourself in the best possible light to another person.”