'Love Letters' isn't your typical play

Have you ever, for whatever reason, just hung on to old correspondence from a dear friend, a relative perhaps, or some long-ago special relationship? And then, just one day, bring them all out again and re-read them?

This is exactly what the characters of Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and Melissa Gardner will do in the upcoming play “Love Letters,” by A.R. Gurney and directed by Harry Schafer, on Friday evening, Nov. 30, at 7 p.m. on the Trinity UMC Social Room stage.

It’s not the usual lots-of-stage-movement type of play. ‘Melissa,’ played by Jamie Javorsky of Spokane and ‘Andy,’ played by Mark Sheldon of Cheney, will take you back in their lives starting with grade school and spanning five decades—with just merely sitting at their desks, letting their words describe a world of emotion.

This unique and imaginative theatre piece was a 1990 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize of Drama, and does contain adult content. Mature audiences are suggested.