Letters of Suresh
Written by Rajiv Joseph
Directed by May Adrales
Second Stage Theatre
October 10, 2021
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💉💉💉💉 out of 5

With this play I did something I have never done in all of my years of theatre-going.  I just looked at my watch and found that I could make an evening show if I wanted.  I hadn’t planned on this – didn’t do any research.  I just went to Playbill on-line and picked one not too far away that I hadn’t seen – – thus Letters of Suresh.  Luckily it paid off and the play was the perfect choice for the evening.

Essentially Letters of Suresh is a series of letters that were found in the meager estate of a dead priest in Hiroshima.  Over the years he had corresponded to Suresh about life and love.  These letters where found and through a third party they are read and passed on to another reader.  Essentially the correspondence of one pair of penpals grew into a small group of people that were transformed by the beauty and honesty of the writing.  Each person that read the letters was driven to become a writer and the art of letter writing blossomed.