Letters From Max – Hampstead Theatre, London - The Reviews Hub

Letters From Max – Hampstead Theatre, London - The Reviews Hub

Writer: Sarah Ruhl, based on the book by Sarah Ruhl and Max Ritvo Director: Blanche McIntyre When playwright Sarah Ruhl was running a playwriting class at Yale University, she received an application from Max Ritvo, a poet who had never written a play before. That would typically have rendered him ineligible for her course, but … The post Letters From Max – Hampstead Theatre, London appeared first on The Reviews Hub.

LETTERS FROM MAX review by thespyinthestalls at Hampstead

LETTERS FROM MAX Hampstead Theatre ★★★★ “The pair occupy the stage for two hours but there is rarely a moment that does not busy the mind or heart” The friendship of Sarah Ruhl and her student Max Ritvo was lyrical, beautiful and tragically – horrendously – short. Ruhl’s epistolary play, based on letters they shared during his studies at Yale and his final illness, is a labour of love, filled with scintillating disquisitions on ideas, poetry, t…