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Love Letters, as read by Sigourney
Weaver and Jeff Daniels, July 26
On Saturday
July 26, 2008, Dow Automotive and The Purple Rose Theatre in
collaboration with The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), The
Detroit Film Theatre (DFT), and The Flea Theater in New York,
will present a single benefit performance of Sigourney
Weaver and Jeff Daniels in A. R.
Gurney’s critically acclaimed play, Love Letters.
Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, Love Letters
centers on two characters, Melissa Gardner (Weaver) and Andrew
Makepeace Ladd III (Daniels) as they read the hilarious and
poignant letters that have passed between them throughout their
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Under Broadway director, Jim Simpson, Love Letters paints
a vivid portrait of two charter members of the privileged set,
as their relationship unfolds from what is written — and what is
left unsaid — in their letters.
According to promoters, the groundbreaking collaboration of
The Purple Rose Theatre, The Detroit Film Theatre, The
Detroit Institute of Arts, and The Flea Theater in New York
is a first. This partnership is innovative, the production
of Love Letters itself is truly unique, and the
evening will be a benchmark for theatre in Michigan.
Love Letters
is not a road company production. Sigourney Weaver and Jeff
Daniels have been brought together for this one genuinely
unrivaled performance.
For more information visit the Purple Rose website at
www.purplerosetheatre.org.
About the Artists
A. R. Gurney
is one of America’s premier playwrights. His work includes
Scenes From American Life, The Dinning Room, The Middle
Ages, The Cocktail Hour, Later Life, Sylvia, Far East,
Ancestral Voices, Big Bill, and Mrs. Farnsworth. He
has written novels, television and movie scripts, and the
libretto for Strawberry Fields, a one-act opera by
Michael Torke, which was performed by the New York City Opera.
Sigourney Weaver
has appeared in over 43 films including: the Aliens
trilogy, Eyewitness, The Year of Living Dangerously,
Ghostbusters, Half Moon Street, Gorillas in the Mist, Working
Girl, Dave, Death and the Maiden, Copycat, The Ice Storm,
Imaginary Heroes, The Village, Infamous, and Vantage
Point.
Ms. Weaver’s stage appearances include: A. R. Gurney’s Crazy
Mary, and Mrs. Farnsworth, David Rabe’s Hurlyburly,
W. Somerset Maugham’s The Constant Wife, Neil
LaBute’s The Mercy Seat, Christopher Durang’s The
Nature and Purpose of the Universe, Sex and Longing, Titanic,
and Das Lusitania Songspiel, which she co-wrote with
Durang. Ms. Weaver was born and educated in New York City and
is an enthusiastic supporter of The Flea Theater in downtown
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Jeff Daniels
has appeared in over 53 films including: Terms of Endearment,
The Purple Rose of Cairo, Heartburn, Something Wild, The House
on Carroll Street, Arachnophobia, The Butcher's Wife, Rain
Without Thunder, Gettysburg, Speed, Dumb and Dumber, Fly Away
Home, 101 Dalmatians, Pleasantville, Blood Work, The Hours, Gods
and Generals, Imaginary Heroes, The Squid and the Whale, Because
of Winn-Dixie, Good Night and Good Luck, Infamous, and
The Lookout.
Mr. Daniels has starred in a number of New York productions. On
Broadway, he starred in Lanford Wilson's Redwood Curtain,
A. R. Gurney's The Golden Age and Wilson's Fifth of
July, for which he won a Drama Desk Award for Best
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Off-Broadway, he received a Drama Desk nomination for Wilson's
Lemon Sky, and an Obie Award for his performance in the
Circle Repertory Company production of Johnny Got His Gun.
Just last year, Daniels won rave reviews in David Harrower’s
Blackbird. Mr. Daniels founded and is currently Executive
Director of The Purple Rose Theatre Company for which he has
written 12 plays. |
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