by
Todd Moe, in Canton, NY
"Letters Home" will be presented 7:30 tonight at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts.
Nov 13, 2014 — Actual letters written by soldiers serving in the Middle East are the central theme of "Letters Home" being performed tonight at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts. The play gives audiences a powerful portrait of the soldier experience in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Todd Moe spoke with playwright William Massolia, who adapted the letters into the play. Massolia said his research included reading more than 400 letters from soldiers to loved ones. The production is inspired by the New York Times Op-Ed Article, "The Things They Wrote" and the HBO documentary, "Last Letters Home."
He said the letters were written under the most difficult of circumstances—the disorientation of training, deployment, separation from family and loved ones, and combat.
Massolia said, most importantly, the play reveals the humanity that lies within the war as seen through the eyes of the men and women fighting it.
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