Signature Theatre presents the world premiere production of MacArthur Fellow Sarah Ruhl’s Letters from Max, directed by Kate Whoriskey, based on the book by Sarah Ruhl and Max Ritvo (Milkweed Editions). Ruhl adapts the 2018 epistolary book Letters from Max: A Poet, a Teacher, a Friendship, “a resonant and profound contribution from two fully formed artists to the literature of illness” (Slate), into a lyrical hybrid work that flows between full-hearted letters, poetry, music, and dialogue. With Letters from Max, Ruhl shares a personal correspondence, in the various forms it assumes between two people fervently pursuing, and offering one another the generosity of, higher expression. In these notes, verses, and utterances, her former student, the late poet Max Ritvo (Four Reincarnations), openly discusses terminal illness and tests poetry’s capacity to put to words what otherwise feels ineffable.
2 hrs 15 mins
February 7th, 2023
March 26th, 2023
12+
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By: Sarah Ruhl, adapted from the book by Sarah Ruhl and Max Ritvo
Director: Kate Whoriskey
Choreography: Warren Adams
Producer: Signature Theatre
Cast list: Jessica Hecht (as Sarah), Ben Edelman and Zane Pais (alternating as Max)
Design: Marsha Ginsberg
Costumes: Anita Yavich
Lighting: Amith Chandrashaker
Sound: Sinan Refik Zafar
Other info: Projection design by S Katy Tucker
Wheelchair access, assisted listening devices; open caption, audio described, and ASL performances
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