CHARLOTTE'S LETTERS by
2024 Hudson Valley Theatre Fest Selection / Rising Artists Award / 1st Place Henley Rose Award / NEWvember Festival Dublin / O'Neill Semifinalist/ Irish Rep's New Works Readings Series / Writer2Writer Award / Top 25 Plays, Panndora's Box / BETC Generations Shortlist / AFF Second-Rounder / BEST WOMEN'S STAGE MONOLOGUES 2022 and other honors
(Full length) A fresh, theatrical...
(Full length) A fresh, theatrical...
2024 Hudson Valley Theatre Fest Selection / Rising Artists Award / 1st Place Henley Rose Award / NEWvember Festival Dublin / O'Neill Semifinalist/ Irish Rep's New Works Readings Series / Writer2Writer Award / Top 25 Plays, Panndora's Box / BETC Generations Shortlist / AFF Second-Rounder / BEST WOMEN'S STAGE MONOLOGUES 2022 and other honors
(Full length) A fresh, theatrical take on the Brontë sisters, intertwining Charlotte Brontë's two years as an unpublished woman at a Belgian school--where she became close to her married tutor/employer, Monsieur Heger--with biographer Mrs.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. As Gaskell delves into Charlotte's past we see Charlotte and her sister Emily at the Belgian school of Madame and Monsieur Heger and the unfolding of events that would transform Charlotte into a bestselling novelist. While in England Mrs. Gaskell's teenage daughter harbors a worrisome secret with which both Gaskell's must come to terms. A play about love, friendship, and the making and unmaking of art and identity.
(Full length) A fresh, theatrical take on the Brontë sisters, intertwining Charlotte Brontë's two years as an unpublished woman at a Belgian school--where she became close to her married tutor/employer, Monsieur Heger--with biographer Mrs.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. As Gaskell delves into Charlotte's past we see Charlotte and her sister Emily at the Belgian school of Madame and Monsieur Heger and the unfolding of events that would transform Charlotte into a bestselling novelist. While in England Mrs. Gaskell's teenage daughter harbors a worrisome secret with which both Gaskell's must come to terms. A play about love, friendship, and the making and unmaking of art and identity.