CHARLOTTE'S LETTERS by
Current Finalist, Hudson Valley Theatre Festival / Rising Artist Playwriting Award / 1st Place Henley Rose Award / O'Neill Semifinalist / NEWvember Festival Dublin Selection / Writer2Writer Award / BETC's Generations Shortlist / AFF Playwriting Award 2nd Rounder / Top 25 Plays, Panndora's Box / Irish Rep's New Works Readings Selection / Selected for THE BEST WOMEN'S STAGE MONOLOGUES...
Current Finalist, Hudson Valley Theatre Festival / Rising Artist Playwriting Award / 1st Place Henley Rose Award / O'Neill Semifinalist / NEWvember Festival Dublin Selection / Writer2Writer Award / BETC's Generations Shortlist / AFF Playwriting Award 2nd Rounder / Top 25 Plays, Panndora's Box / Irish Rep's New Works Readings Selection / Selected for THE BEST WOMEN'S STAGE MONOLOGUES 2022 and other honors
(Full length) A fresh new take on the Brontës, intertwining Charlotte Brontë's two years as an unpublished young woman at a Belgian school--where she became close to her married male tutor/employer--with biographer Mrs. Gaskell's struggle to salvage Charlotte's posthumous reputation and trailblazing novels. In Victorian England, the novels of recently deceased author Charlotte Brontë are now widely banned for being too passionate. Gaskell intends to prove that Charlotte was innocent and her reclusive life, blameless--but when an alarming letter arrives from Brussels, Gaskell feels forced to investigate just how much of Charlotte's novels--including the bestselling but scandalous JANE EYRE--was based on her own life. A theatrical play about love, friendship, and the making of art and identity.
(Full length) A fresh new take on the Brontës, intertwining Charlotte Brontë's two years as an unpublished young woman at a Belgian school--where she became close to her married male tutor/employer--with biographer Mrs. Gaskell's struggle to salvage Charlotte's posthumous reputation and trailblazing novels. In Victorian England, the novels of recently deceased author Charlotte Brontë are now widely banned for being too passionate. Gaskell intends to prove that Charlotte was innocent and her reclusive life, blameless--but when an alarming letter arrives from Brussels, Gaskell feels forced to investigate just how much of Charlotte's novels--including the bestselling but scandalous JANE EYRE--was based on her own life. A theatrical play about love, friendship, and the making of art and identity.