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color=#2a2a2a face=Georgia>A chat with ‘Love Letters’’ Dorothy Silver, George
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face=Georgia><FONT color=#2a2a2a><SPAN>A production of A.R. Gurney’s simple yet
startlingly poignant “Love Letters” requires just a</SPAN></FONT><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-bidi-font-family: arial"> table, two chairs
and a pair of actors reading from letters their characters have exchanged over a
long lifetime.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P>
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face=Georgia>The play is one of those rare and wonderful works whose tenderness,
richness and running thread of longing and regret needs no embellishment from
scenic designers.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It does, however,
require some fine acting and an audience that can recall with fondness the
quaint ritual of handwritten personal correspondence now lost in an era of phone
texts and tweets.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Though the production
is open to the general public, its core audience conveniently resides within the
senior living </FONT></FONT></SPAN><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><SPAN
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> Judson Manor, where Theatre in the Circle’s
managing director Mark </FONT></SPAN><FONT color=#333333><SPAN
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artistic director Bill Corcoran stage their
shows.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN
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color=#333333>The fine acting comes courtesy of stellar Cleveland performers
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color=#2a2a2a>Dorothy Silver and George Roth, who portray </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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face=Georgia>The Cleveland Jewish News interrupted an early read-through of this
play and caught up with the actors and director Mark Corcoran.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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