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An honest and insightful look at our relationship with old age, youth, and memory, Seven Letters sees three very different women whose paths would otherwise likely never have crossed thrown together through societal circumstance. The one thing these women have in common? They’re all in the midst of their twilight years.

Rian Flatley’s new play provides a platform for seldom heard voices and explores our society’s relationship with the elderly. Three lives are unfurled before us through a carefully constructed recipe of dialogue, monologue, and song. Stories are told, secrets revealed, and friendships forged in this moving and poignant, yet charmingly funny tale.

Seven Letters is a wonderful example of monologues done right. Flatley’s powerful script brings these multi-layered and unique characters to life with natural ease. Sensitive subject matter is handled with delicacy and care, but also brutal honesty. The entire cast hit the mark with energetic and heartbreakingly raw performances which capture and captivate, taking the audience on a journey through their memories. This play sparkles with vibrancy and life, underpinned by a constant sense of aching nostalgia. A fierce hunger rages within these women, a need to be heard, to be remembered, to be loved, and to be alive.

Lindsay Bridgewater’s beautiful songs bring the whole piece together, a series of strong ballads providing an echo of youth and hope for the future. This is a play which is constantly asking us to pause a moment and think about the path ahead of us. If you could see your future for fifteen seconds, would you? And would it be enough?

Seven Letters is beautiful, bittersweet, full of heart and most importantly, incredibly human. Prepare to laugh, cry, and then laugh again at this firecracker of a show. Thoroughly recommended, a must-see.

Seven Letters ~ [Tabard Theatre] ~ | Review
★★★★