Letters of Suresh
by Rajiv Joseph

Off-Broadway

Letters of Suresh Book Cover — Letters of Suresh Cover

Highlights

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75 minsPresent DayRole(s) for Asian Actor(s)Multicultural CastingUnit Set/Multiple SettingsContemporary Costumes/Street Clothes

Synopsis

Intimate mysteries unfold through a series of letters between strangers, friends, daughters and lovers – many with little else in common but a hunger for human connection.

Sending their hopes and dreams across oceans and years, they seek peace in one another, while some dream of a city once consumed by the scourge of war.

Letters of Suresh is a companion play to Animals Out of Paper .

Press Reviews

"Letters of Suresh finds its characters in various stages of heartbreak, with no fracture fully healed… The play surveys the near impossibility of connection."
— The New York Times

"Joseph’s writing is as vivid and poetic as ever… [He] creates such intriguing, intelligent characters."
— New York Stage Review

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Suresh Thakur Starts at 18. Indian American.	—	—	Starts at 18. Indian American.
Amelia Wren Starts at 40. White.	—	—	Starts at 40. White.
Father Hashimoto Japanese, from Nagasaki. Grandfather to Melody.	—	—	Japanese, from Nagasaki. Grandfather to Melody.
Melody Park Starts at 40. Asian American.	—	—	Starts at 40. Asian American.