84 CHARING CROSS ROAD
Synopsis:
The true story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books that developed into a close friendship. In 1949, a struggling American writer, Helene Hanff, sees an ad in ‘The Saturday Review of Literature’ for the bookstore Marks & Co of 84 Charing Cross Road, London, that sells antiquarian books by mail order.
She writes hoping to indulge her love of beautiful books and begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel that lasts 20 years.
PLAYWRIGHT:
The warm, compassionate and very human exchange of letters was first published as a book by Helene Hanff and then skillfully and lovingly adapted for the stage by James Roose-Evans
84 CHARING CROSS ROAD
Genre: Drama
Playwright: James Roose-Evans
Directed by: Peter Forester
Production Date: April 2011
Group: BHTC
Staged: The Theatre, Church Walk, Burgess Hill
BHTC Production Number: 267
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