84 CHARING CROSS ROAD

This play is a dramatisation of a series of business letters between a young struggling writer in New York and an antiquarian book store owner in London. In a sense, these are also love letters… they are about the love of good literature. The play takes place over a twenty year period, beginning in 1949 when Helene Hanff (played on Broadway by Ellen Burstyn) first writes to Marks & Co. and ends in 1969 with the death of Frank Doel, the delightfully dusty supplier of so many old volumes to Helene who has shown her gratitude through the years by sending ‘care packages’ to the staff of Marks & Co After a gap of 27 years, Ian Hunter returns to directing with ’84 Charing Cross Road’, after previously directing J.B. Priestley’s ‘Time and the Conways’ in 1999 Tickets for ’84 Charing Cross Road’ will go on sale on-line in February 26. A Play. Directed by Ian Hunter