Pen Pals
Written by Michael Griffo
Directed by Jason Cooper
Featuring Susan McNeese Lynch and Karole Spangler
September 24 - October 4
LOUISVILLE PREMIERE!
MeX Theatre at the Kentucky Center
MeX Theatre at the Kentucky Center
TWO WOMEN. FIVE DECADES. ONE ASTONISHING FRIENDSHIP.
Pen Pals follows two women, strangers on opposite sides of the Atlantic, who start writing to each other as teenagers and never stop — not for fifty years. What begins as a pen pal assignment becomes the steadiest relationship of their lives, outlasting marriages, jobs, distance, and everything else that gets in the way. Performed with no costume changes, no aging makeup, just two actors and the words themselves, it's a quietly powerful reminder of what it means to be truly known by someone — and how the smallest habit, a letter every so often, can hold a friendship together across an entire lifetime.
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Pen Pals follows two women, strangers on opposite sides of the Atlantic, who start writing to each other as teenagers and never stop — not for fifty years. What begins as a pen pal assignment becomes the steadiest relationship of their lives, outlasting marriages, jobs, distance, and everything else that gets in the way. Performed with no costume changes, no aging makeup, just two actors and the words themselves, it's a quietly powerful reminder of what it means to be truly known by someone — and how the smallest habit, a letter every so often, can hold a friendship together across an entire lifetime.
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