Dear Elizabeth, Sarah Ruhl
Dear Elizabeth, Sarah Ruhl
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Dear Elizabeth
A Play in Letters from Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell and Back Again

Author: Sarah Ruhl

Narrator: Julian Sands, JoBeth Williams

Unabridged: 1 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/15/2015

Synopsis

The complicated relationship between the poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell is revealed in nearly thirty years’ worth of correspondence. Taken from their exchange of letters, Dear Elizabeth is a study in friendship, intimacy, and the power of words.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production starring JoBeth Williams and Julian Sands, with narration by Chris Hatfield.

Directed by Rosalind Ayres and recorded before an audience by L.A. Theatre Works.

About Sarah Ruhl

Sarah Ruhl is a playwright, essayist, and poet. Her fifteen plays include In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play), The Clean House, and Eurydice. She has been a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Tony Award nominee, and the recipient of the MacArthur “genius” Fellowship. Her plays have been produced on- and off-Broadway, around the country, internationally, and have been translated into many languages. Her book 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write was a New York Times Notable Book. Her other books include Letters from Max, with Max Ritvo, and 44 Poems for You. She has received the Steinberg Playwright Award, the Samuel French Award, the Feminist Press Under 40 Award, the National Theater Conference Person of the Year Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, a Whiting Award, a Lily Award, and a PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for mid-career playwrights. She teaches at the Yale School of Drama, and she lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Tony Charuvastra, who is a child psychiatrist, and their three children. You can read more about her work at SarahRuhlPlaywright.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dave on October 26, 2017

Sarah Ruhl created the play from the letters spanning over thirty years exchanged by two of the finest poets of the twentieth century, Robert Lowell (Life Studies, For The Union Dead) and Elizabeth Bishop (Cold Spring, A Question of Travel), who were life-long friends. They were each other’s first r......more

Goodreads review by Rob on June 18, 2021

3.5 stars. This epistolary work highlights excerpts of letters between poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, two towering poetic figures of the mid-20th Century. The play’s sequence of life events and ruminations are sometimes moving and thought-provoking, though just as often enigmatic, not offe......more

Goodreads review by John Perine on May 27, 2023

Didn’t realize that this would be the book that would mark my completion of my yearly reading challenge. But what a perfect pick! I’m dying to do this play again. The closing poem hit me especially hard this time.......more

Goodreads review by Ali on January 12, 2021

Sarah Ruhl says everything that I couldn't. Masterful and gripping, Dear Elizabeth is a quicker read that will haunt you for days after with snippets and scenes replaying again and again.......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on February 19, 2024

A fantastic play! Short, but hit all the best parts of a long, loving relationship with great humor too.......more

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