The Letters Project (In English) [] JC3

Thursday, Dec. 29 at 7:00 pm, doors open at 6:30, wine and snacks will be available for purchase.

200 pesos for non-members; 150 for members.

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  A NOT-TO-BE-MISSED EVENING OF THEATER

There are funny letters and tragic letters, with touching advice and amazing perspectives. Some just allow you to be a “fly-on-the wall” as historic figures speak from the heart to a friend or lover. This staged reading makes for a fascinating experience you’ll remember for years to come.

We just have to tell you about our next exciting and moving staged theatre reading at JC3/CHESMA.

After our dynamic presentation of Mark Twain’s Diaries of Adam and Eve and the double sell-outs of Anat Gov’s O My God!, we want to let you know about our next show, now, because seating is limited.

It’s a theater work-in-progress currently called The Letters Project. Read live by some of San Miguel’s finest actors, it consists of a mix of noteworthy letters selected from, “Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience,” collected by Sean Usher. Some are written to or by famous figures from the worlds of literary, artistic, theatrical or scientific endeavor, as well as some by folks you’ve never heard of but may have changed the course of world events.

The Letters Project contains an 11-yr-old girl’s letter to Abraham Lincoln while he was running for office, telling him she thinks more people will vote for him if he would grow a beard; a letter from Clyde Barrow to Henry Ford saying “What a dandy car you make” and that he uses a Ford for all his getaways; a letter from Antarctic explorer Robert Scott “To My Widow,” written over days as he realizes that he and his party are going to perish before making it back to their base camp; a letter from Kurt Vonnegut to his father after being released as a WWII P.O.W., and which later formed the basis of his book, Slaughterhouse Five; a letter from Dorothy Parker (featuring her inimitable wit) written while in a hospital mental ward suffering from exhaustion.

The letters in the Project have been culled by veteran SMA theater stars Lee Duberman and Richard Fink with JC3’s Steve Garfinkel. Joining the Duberman/Finks onstage are actors Gene Harvey and Steve Garfinkel. Warning, some strong language is used