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Write Kind of Love. May 28, 2015 12:00 am. George and Lee-Alison Sibley to present Love Letters, A R Gurney's original script of Tumhari Amrita. ‘Tumhari Amrita’ ran for 21 years worldwide, including faroff countries like Norway. The first performance was held on February 27, 1992 at Prithvi Theatre.
TumhariAmrita played in our city for a few shows. By Ms Shabana Azmi and Mr FarookhSheikh. I missed it. As I have missed Putul Khela and Kallol andeven Raktakarabi. I was searching the net one day for whatever glimpses ofthese that Mr
Google had to offer. It was thenthat I found, that Tumhari Amrita was an adaptationof LoveLetters, a play by Mr A R Gurney.There was a lot of material on Love Letters, some video snippets and showtimings even. Only the shows were not in my part of the world. But the video snippetsreminded me of a line by Ms Azmi inTumhari Amrita I saw on TV. It was a very short glimpse of onescene in some programme on Ms Azmi. ' Us angan ke kone meek bargat ka perh tha', if I remember correctly. Herreminiscent happy voice haunted me to read theEnglish play. If anyone can tell me more about Tumhari Amrita, the book or theplay, I will remain ever grateful.
Now more about Love Letters. I quote about the play from thebook.
' This is a play or rather a sort of play, which needs no theater,no lengthy rehearsal, no special set, no memorization of lines, and nocommitment from its two actors beyond the night of performance. It is designedsimply to be read aloud by an actor and an actress of roughly the same age,sitting side by side at a table, in front of a group of people of any size. The actor might wear adark grey suit, the actress a simple expensive looking dress. In a more formalproduction, the table and chairs might be reasonably elegant English antiques,and the actors area may be isolated against a dark background by bright focused lights. In performance the piece would seem to work best if the actorsdidn't look at each other until the very end, when Melissa might watch Andy ashe reads his final letter. They listen eagerly and attentively to each otheralong the way, however, much as we might listen to an urgent voice on a one-way radio. comingfrom far, far away.'
All through the 55 pages of thedrama and for a considerable time thereafter, I remained transfixed on thelives of Andy and Melissa. I shared their childhood affection, their teenageromance and, their quarrels, their hide and seek uneasiness in adulthood and their love, which Andy couldadmit only after her death.
Andy's last letter is arevelation. He summarizes his entire life in a tragic canvass of theinnumerable moments where he and Melissa came together and went away indifferent directions throughout their lives. I quote from the concluding partof the play where he writes to her mother after Melissa's death and we hearMelissa's soul suffering from the pain of his admissions.
Andy : Dear Mrs Gardener, I thinkthe first letter I ever wrote was to you, accepting an invitation for Melissa'sbirthday party. Now I am writing you again about her death. I wish to say a few things on paper Icouldn't say at her funeral, both when I spoke, and when you and I talkedafterward. As you may know, Melissa and I managed to keep in touch witheach other most of our lives, primarily through letters. Even now, as I writethis letter to you, I feel I'm writing also to her.
Melissa : Ah, you are inyour element now, Andy....
Andy : We had a complicatedrelationship, she and I, all our lives. We went in very different directions.But somehow, over those years, I think we managed to give something to each other. Melissa expressed allthe dangerous and rebellious feelings I never dared admit to.....
Melissa : Now he tells me....
Andy : And I like to think I gaveher some sense of balance ......
Melissa : BALANCE ? Ohhell, I give up. Have it your way, Andy ; balance!
Andy : Most of the things I didin life I did with her partly in mind. And if I said or did an inauthenticthing, I could almost hear her groaning over my shoulder. But now she is gone, I really don't know howI will get along without her.
Melissa : ( Looking at him for the first time) You'll survive,Andy.............
Andy : I have a wonderful wife,fine children, and a place in the world I feel proud of, but the death ofMelissa suddenly leaves a huge gap in my life...
Melissa : Oh now,Andy......
Andy : The thought of never againbeing able to write to her, to connect to her, to get some signal back fromher, fills me with an emptiness which is hard to describe.
Andy : I don't think there aremany men in this world who have had the benefit of such a friendship with sucha woman. But it was more than friendship, too. I know now that I love her. I loved her even fromthe day I met her, when we talked into that second grade, looking like the lostprincess of Oz.
Melissa : Oh, Andy,PLEASE. I can't bear it.
Andy : I don't think I've everloved anyone the way I loved her, and I know I never ill again. She was at theheart of my life, and already I miss her desperately. I just wanted to say this to you andto her. Sincerely, Andy Ladd.
Melissa : Thank you,Andy. '
The format of the play is unique.It takes you through fifty years of their lives, their journey and theirescapades as they grow up and try to live without each other. Their families,though never appearing in person, are ever visible in the background. Melissawrites less. She is more action oriented. But she portrays Andy in the fewlines she pens. And I quote again.
' Senator and Mrs Andrew M.Ladd, III and family send you warm holiday greetings and every good wish forthe New year.
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Melissa : Andy Ladd, is that YOU ? Blow dried and custom-tailored andjogging trim at fifty-five. Hiding behind that lovely wife with her heelstogether and her hands foldeddiscreetly over her snatch ? And is that your new DOG, Andy ? I see that youhave graduated to a golden retriever. And are those your sons and heirs ? And -- Help! Is that a grandchildnestled in someone's arms? God, Andy, you look like the Holy Family! ......'
She is also very direct.
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Andy : .....Jane and the boys join me in wishing each and all ofyou a Happy Holiday Season.
Melissa : Dear Andy. If I ever get another one of those drippyXeroxed Christmas letters from you, I think I will invite myself out to yourducky little house for dinner, and whenyou are all sitting there eating terribly healthy food and discussing terriblyimportant things and generally congratulating yourselves on all your accomplishments, I think I willstand up on my chair, and turn around and moon the whole f...ing family!'
Andy loves to write.
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'Andy : O.K. Here goes. The reason I'm writing Angie Atkinson is because Ijust don't think I can stop writing Letters, particularly to girls. As I toldyou before, in some ways I feel I ammost alive when I'm holed up in some corner, writing things down. I pick up apen and almost immediately everything seems to take shape around me. I love to write. I love writingmy parents because then I become the ideal son. I love writing essays forEnglish, because then I am for a short while, atrue scholar. I love writing letters to the newspapers, notes to my fiends,Christmas Cards, anything where I have to put down words. I love writing you.This letter which I'm writingwith my own hand, with my own pen, in my own penmanship, comes from me and noone else, and is a present of myself to you......'
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I loved reading the play. Ashappens with age, you will find some of their experiences common to yours. Mostof these will make you smile, some may be sad. But you will surely cherish themand revisit them. Please do. Happy reading! And if you can find TumhariAmritafor me to read or listen to, nothing like it!
p.s. I was so overwhelmed by theplay that I made a recording of it in my untrained voice, playing both Andy andMelissa. I have separated the characters by inserting a bell sound, single bellfor Andy and a double for Melissa. I attach two portions. Please bear with them.