“Letters To The Editor” at Battery Factory Theater

Culled from two centuries of actual letters to local newspapers, this is a portrait of a community written in its own words. This ingenious dovetailing of letters creates a unique, timeless mosaic of small-town America with dozens of colorful characters and conflicts, by turns banal or beautiful, outrageous or moving, comic or profound. In the days of instant e-mail and Internet relationships, there’s something old-fashioned about citizens communicating with other citizens through the smudgy, actual medium of newsprint. Here, a community reflects on wars, racism, taxes, child abuse, and some of the quirkiest and funniest subjects one can only find in the Letters to the Editor section of any newspaper