Show Love Letters to Salt Lake City Gloria Quick Associate editor O One ne might ask why playwright A. A R. R Gurney thought that two at a writing desk reading letters could work as a play Husband and wife team and seasoned performers Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows answered the question at the Capitol Theater in Salt Lake City Reading letters written to each other from second grade through middle age Allen and Meadows conveyed every nuance of the scripts script's message In the opening dialogue Meadows masterfully convinced the audience she was she was probably a seven- seven or year old girl Her subtle yet powerful vocal inflections facial expressions expressions expressions ex ex- and body language made us feel Meadows' Meadows character charac charac- ter grow and mature into middle age while sitting at that desk Both Allen and Meadows brought their characters to life and made the audience come to know and care about the people writing these letters Love Letters unleashed feelings everyone experiences It showed how loving someone quite unlike ourselves helps us relate to a world full of uniquely different people Gurney Gurney Gurney Gur Gur- ney made us believe his message that money though money though easing the need for toil toil toil- aids the temptation to ignore parental responsibilities resulting in adult children still wildly desperate to feel pure and unconditional love He showed how the written word provides a channel chan el for expressing expressing expressing ex ex- pressing different from any other |