A R Gurney’s Love Letters, which premiered on Broadway in 1989, tells the story of lawyer Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and artist Melissa Gardner, whose lives have been entwined since they met in second grade. 

Love Letters brings to life their correspondence over 50 years, chronicling hopes, dreams and disappointments; from teenage valentines to the letters and postcards that mark the trials of adulthood, marriage and divorce, right up to a still separated middle age. The story of their bittersweet relationship gradually unfolds from what was written, what is between the lines and what was left unsaid.

Husband and wife Edward Woodward and Michelle Dotrice take on the roles in this production at Richmond theatre.