Past event
Date:
6 March 2024
Letters Live returned to the Royal Albert Hall on 6th March 2024 – marking Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day – with a show in aid of one of the world’s greatest organisations celebrating creativity, the Women’s Prize Trust.
Each Letters Live event is unique, as the entire list of performers is kept secret from the audience until the moment they take to the stage.
This show fundraised for the Women’s Prize Trust’s mission to enrich society by creating equitable opportunities for women in the world of books and beyond. Every ticket purchased will support their work putting women’s writing in the hands of readers – women and men – around the globe.
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I love the Masturbatium, don’t you?
Dorothea Tanning to Muriel Streeter
A great step forward
Terry O’Hara to the Guardian
Fashions in fear change, but do people?
Shirley Jackson to a young reader
This is quite true
Evelyn Waugh Laura Waugh
Dear Lupin
Roger Mortimer to his son
You helped us escape the drabness of our prison days
Norah Samuelli to Agatha Christie
There is no easy road to successful authorship
Louisa May Alcott to Miss Churchill
Gentlemen, I just don’t belong here
Ursula Le Guin to Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
You have crossed a great divide
Diana Athill to Edward Field
My child was perfect
Courtney Baker to her doctor
SOMEONE HAS GIVEN ME THE GRACE JUST TO BE
Marian Engel to Timothy Findley
I am completely dazzled
Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf
I have enclosed your letter
Bobby Freeman to Greater Anglia Rail
This would make him mine
John Steinbeck to Marilyn Monroe
Go Green Death!
Michael Kinahan to various
I demand answers!
Thatcher Jensen to The lady selling seashells by the seashore
We formed only one being
Maud Gonne to Yeats
It was hard to wrestle those reins out of your hands
Sharon Horgan to the men she’s known and loved
Dear Michael
Various women to Michael Block
This is not a letter
Katherine Mansfield to Leslie Beauchamp
Like a tree in full bearing
Charlotte Bronte to W.S. Williams Louise Brealey
Victory is inevitable
Alexei Navalny to his supporters
I want to tell you that I am sorry, and that I tried
Stuart Capstick to his kids
Who can say that Victory is worth the death of even one of these
Roland Leighton Vera Brittain
God’s Law
An adoring fan to Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Why should my generation disappear to make room for the next?
Carolee Schneemann to Dick Higgins
I hope you will never get this letter
Martha Gellhorn to her mother
Why don’t you try protecting animals without objectifying women?
Galen Sherwin to Ingrid Newkirk
Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole
Martha Wainwright
Limina Luminis (by Olivia Belli)
Anna Lapwood
Hurts
Emeli Sandé
People Help the People
Birdy Birdy