She Wrote the Letter
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Sun: 4:00pm
“She Wrote the Letter” is a new Australian play based on an unlikely, long-lasting real friendship between Ute from East Germany and Tania from New Zealand – two women who maintained a 30-year committed pen relationship across language and cultural barriers, and through the collapse of communism. Their correspondence began in 1979 when they were just teenagers. And now, a play based on their letters, will star one of the women in a dramatic retelling of her own story.
Written by prolific Melbourne playwright, Kieran Carroll, in a collaboration with award-winning director Cathy Hunt, the play is drawn from correspondence that begins from a series of youthful letters navigating the difficult East-West divide, before drawing us into complex family lives over decades.