Directed by Jason Cooper
Featuring Susan McNeese Lynch and Karole Spangler
September 24 - October 4
Eve Theatre returns with the Louisville premiere of Pen Pals.
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.
Eve Theatre Company is proud to present the Louisville premiere of Pen Pals, a one-act play by Michael Griffo.
Pen Pals is an epistolary play that tells the story of an extraordinary friendship between two ordinary women. Bernie, from Newark, New Jersey, starts writing to Mags, who lives in Sheffield, England, when she is fourteen years old — and their correspondence continues for the next five decades. The play unfolds as an extended flashback, as the two women read aloud the letters they exchanged over half a century. Without the aid of costumes, makeup, or wigs, the actors age before the audience's eyes as they trace the arc of two lives, told one letter at a time.
Pen Pals premiered at the New Jersey Repertory Theatre on October 3, 2024, featuring Nancy McKeon and Johanna Day. The subsequent Off-Broadway production opened at Theatre at St. Clement's on December 11, 2024, with a rotating cast that included Maureen McCormick, Sharon Lawrence, Nia Vardalos, Kate Burton, Kathleen Chalfant, and Marcia Cross.
Eve Theatre's production is directed by Jason Cooper and stars Susan McNeese Lynch and Karole Spangler, with Brandi Hornbuckle as stage manager and Lindsay Krupski as lighting designer.
Performance Dates & Times
September 24, 25, 26 & October 1, 2, 3 — 7:30 PM
September 27 & October 4 — 2:30 PM
Location: MeX Theatre, Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts
Tickets
General Admission - $25
Seniors- $22
Students & Groups of 10 or more - $22
Available at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts Box Office online, or by phone at 502-584-7777.
Pen Pals is produced by special arrangement with Theatrical Rights Worldwide.
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.
Eve Theatre Company is proud to present the Louisville premiere of Pen Pals, a one-act play by Michael Griffo.
Pen Pals is an epistolary play that tells the story of an extraordinary friendship between two ordinary women. Bernie, from Newark, New Jersey, starts writing to Mags, who lives in Sheffield, England, when she is fourteen years old — and their correspondence continues for the next five decades. The play unfolds as an extended flashback, as the two women read aloud the letters they exchanged over half a century. Without the aid of costumes, makeup, or wigs, the actors age before the audience's eyes as they trace the arc of two lives, told one letter at a time.
Pen Pals premiered at the New Jersey Repertory Theatre on October 3, 2024, featuring Nancy McKeon and Johanna Day. The subsequent Off-Broadway production opened at Theatre at St. Clement's on December 11, 2024, with a rotating cast that included Maureen McCormick, Sharon Lawrence, Nia Vardalos, Kate Burton, Kathleen Chalfant, and Marcia Cross.
Eve Theatre's production is directed by Jason Cooper and stars Susan McNeese Lynch and Karole Spangler, with Brandi Hornbuckle as stage manager and Lindsay Krupski as lighting designer.
Performance Dates & Times
September 24, 25, 26 & October 1, 2, 3 — 7:30 PM
September 27 & October 4 — 2:30 PM
Location: MeX Theatre, Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts
Tickets
General Admission - $25
Seniors- $22
Students & Groups of 10 or more - $22
Available at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts Box Office online, or by phone at 502-584-7777.
Pen Pals is produced by special arrangement with Theatrical Rights Worldwide.
