Collaborators / Concept Development Hannah Ringham, Nigel Barratt Rehearsal Performer and Devisor Nina Bowers Set and Costume Design Moi Tran Lighting Design Jess Hang Hun Yun Sound Design Jon Nichols Assistant Director Yasmin Hafesji Production Management Ed Borgnis Stage Management Jenny Skivens, Nina Harding (props) Design Assistant Sally Hardcastle Concept Testing Tim Crouch, Peter Hobday, Temi Wilkey, Travis Alabanza, Lucy McCormick, Shalisha James Davies, Linda Broughton.

Performers Thalissa Teixeira, Sam Spruell, Shalisha James-Davis, Emun Elliott, Lucy McCormick, Annabel Baldwin, Caoilfhionn Dunne, Joseph Akubeze, Jade Anouka, Jonjo O'Neill, Nina Bowers, Phoebe Fox, Tamsin Greig, Angus Wright, Travis Alabanza, Charlotte Josephine, Amelia Stubberfield, Angela Clerkin, Christopher Green, Chris Brett Bailey, Temi Wilkey, Seiriol Davies, Emma Dennis Edwards, Elizabeth Chan, Jo Clifford, Paul Bazely, Linda Broughton, Jon Foster, Kwame Owusu, Frankie Henry, Samuel West, Jo Horton, Emma Frankland, Neil D'Souza, Tim Crouch, Nadia Albina, Lois Chimimba, Sule Rimi, Sue MacLaine, Paul Ready, Lucy Bairstow, Gabby Wong, Shane Zaza, Amanda Hale, Chris Thorpe, Kayla Meikle, Lucy Ellinson, Leo Bill, Isabel Adomakoh Young, Helena Lymbery, Dickie Beau, Hattie Morahan, Anjana Vasan, Tobias Menzies, Luke Norris, Eileen Walsh, Kwong Loke, Annie Siddons, Michael Shaeffer, Martina Laird, Susan Wokoma, Hammed Animashaun

2021 - Collaborator / Concept Development Hannah Ringham Rehearsal Perfomer and Devisor Frankie Henry Set and Costume Associate Malena Arcucci Lighting Associate Tyler Forward Sound Associate Tingying Dong Assistant Director Xanthus Peters Production Management Bob Bagley Stage Management Lavinia Serban, Roni Neale, Natalia Kheldouni Concept Testing Liz Chan, Joseph Akubeze

Performers Jacob Seelochan, Angelina Chudi, Pete MacHale, Jimena Larraguivel, Justice Ritchie, Mei Mac, Mika Onyx Johnson, Jen Dixon, Waj Ali, Samuelle Durojaiye, Martins Imhangbe, Roberta Livingston, Arthur Hughes, Catherine Chalk, Rufus Love, Anoushka Lucas, Eric Kofi Abrefa, Deborah Bahi, David Moorst, Pepa Duarte, Michelle Tiwo, Saffia Kavaz, Saskia Craft-Stanley, Shannon Tarbet, Esh Alladi, Lauren Ziebart, Montel Bowen, Kae Alexander, Joshua Griffin, Minhee Yeo.

Production Photography Helen Murray

‘This is as live as theatre can come’  - WhatsOnStage

Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell were two of America’s most brilliant poets. They wrote over 400 letters to each other through their lives; spanning decades, continents, political eras.

Their relationship was messy and profound; platonic and romantic; distant and intense. A love that resists easy definition.

The production features two unrehearsed performers each night. They meet each other, and the audience, at the start of the performance. Everyone discovers the story of Robert and Elizabeth, letter by letter, together.

'Dear Elizabeth was a thrilling theatrical experience to both participate in, and to watch the other performances. It was a heady cocktail of memory, poetry, surprise encounter, desire, longing, delicious playfulness and searing heartbreak. A love letter to love letters'  - Tamsin Greig