First look rehearsal images have been released of Tessa Peake-Jones and Gwyneth Strong who star together in the touring stage adaption of the hugely popular Ladies of Letters.
Adapted by the acclaimed Jonathan Harvey (Coronation Street, Gimme Gimme Gimme), this production will mark the duo’s first time working together since Only Fools and Horses. Directed by Joanna Read, Chief Executive of the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, the tour will open at the theatre with a press night on Tuesday 3rd May.
The tour will then visit Perth Theatre, Derby Theatre, Malvern Festival Theatre, Warwick Arts Centre, Hall For Cornwall and Norwich Theatre Royal.
Irene Spencer and Vera Small, two suburban women in their sixties battle the big issues of the 21st century, from climate change protest and accidental imprisonment, to handy recipes for tasty petit fours and how to get stains out of slacks. They are best frenemies. Using the long lost artform of letter writing, they freely vent their views on their ungrateful children, how to find love at 60, and, on each other.
