Epistolary drama of a 20-year correspondence between a New York writer and London antiquarian bookseller, built on shared love of literature.
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Epistolary drama of a 20-year correspondence between a New York writer and London antiquarian bookseller, built on shared love of literature.
This wonderful show is a dramatization of business letters between a young struggling writer in New York and an antiquarian book store in London. In a sense, these are also love letters. They are about the love of good literature. The play takes place over a twenty year period, beginning in 1949 when Helene Hanff (played on Broadway by Ellen Burstyn) first writes Marks & Co. and ends in 1969 with the death of Frank Doel, the delightfully dusty supplier of so many old volumes to Helen who has sho...
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No self-harm or suicide depicted
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