The hidden lives of letter writers
It’s been said that there’s a book in everyone. Whatever about the veracity of that notion, there is certainly a letter in everyone – or, more precisely, a letter stored away as a keepsake or just gathering dust in an attic. The Everyman Theatre is seeking personal messages and letters for a unique storytelling project, ‘Dear Cork.’ This county-wide project is being run by the theatre with its writer-in-residence, Carmel Winters, and Cork County Council. The aim is to unearth and animate the hidden wealth of stories of Cork by inviting the public to take part.
As Winters says: “We believe there are thousands of such stories living in bottom drawers and bureaus, in boxes all over Cork and further afield. We invite the public to become an adventurer in this quest by searching out a letter with a story that deserves to be told and sending it to us.”
