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Title

Love Letters

Writer

Michael Barry

Cast

full: 3m 2f; w/doubling 2m, 2f

ISBN

9781840946871

Book Fee Code

C - £6

Licence Fee Code

C - £35 - for each performance.

Duration

Full Length

Type

A Play

Synopsis

adaptation of Thomas Hardy's enduring story "On the Western Circuit".

Reduced cast (with doubling) 2m, 2f.

Edith Harnham’s young protege, beautiful, uneducated Anna is training to be a domestic servant.
One evening, she succumbs to a handsome lawyer briefly in town touring the Western Circuit. Charles is totally captivated although she’s quite unsuitable for a professional man’s wife.
Anna, who is only just learning to write, persuades Edith to write her love letters to Charles but Edith with mistaken judgement improves them, and soon Charles’ soul is captivated too.
With Anna in the family way, these letters can only lead to tragic disaster for the true lovers, Edith and Charles, in one of the most moving of romantic tales ever written.

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