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Hate Mail

When Preston writes a furious letter to a store demanding a refund for a broken snow globe, he gets assistant manager Dahlia fired -- and finds a vengeful epistolary match.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 80 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes, Strong Language

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
When Preston writes a furious letter to a store demanding a refund for a broken snow globe, he gets assistant manager Dahlia fired -- and finds a vengeful epistolary match.

In this wickedly funny alternative to Love Letters, the two embark on an epic, often acrimonious correspondence as their lives intertwine. Whether Preston and Dahlia are joining cults, having breakdowns, shipping each other deceased lizards, or falling in love, Hate Mail is a two-person comedy full of surprises at every turn. 
REVIEWS:

"Corbett and Obolensky drip sardonic, hilarious acid from their pens, picking apart their characters with enviously articulate and explosively funny letter-grenades."

 Twin Cities Reader

"The real danger in making a comedy with a format like Hate Mail is that if the script isn't written well enough, it could easily turn into some cheesy spoof of Love Letters, or 84 Charing Cross Road or any of a few other epistolary plays. Corbett and Obolensky have gracefully avoided this fate in a script that makes numerous clever brushes with social satire that provide a profoundly interesting look into the heart of the human communication."

 Russ Bickerstaff, onmilwaukee.com

"The script is clever, the pacing is crisp and the acting superb."

 Julie McHale, Waukesha Freeman

"Playwrights Bill Corbett and Kira Obolensky may have written the snappy, savagely satirical epistolary Hate Mail by snail mail and fax, but the anti-love story delivers laughs with the speed of a flaming e-mail... Corbett and Obolensky drip sardonic, hilarious acid from their pens, picking apart their characters with enviously articulate and explosively funny letter-grenades."

 Twin Cities Reader

"Extremely humorous and literate script... I laughed so much it hurt."

 Ventura County Reporter (California)

Characters

  • Casting: 1M, 1F

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When Preston writes a furious letter to a store demanding a refund for a broken snow globe, he gets assistant manager Dahlia fired -- and finds a vengeful epistolary match.

In this wickedly funny alternative to Love Letters, the two embark on an epic, often acrimonious correspondence as their lives intertwine. Whether Preston and Dahlia are joining cults, having breakdowns, shipping each other deceased lizards, or falling in love, Hate Mail is a two-person comedy full of surprises at every turn. 

$24.95

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