Dear Rhoda: A Staged Reading

Dear Rhoda; A Staged Reading
By Donna Russell and David Ranney
Adapted and directed by Peter Garino
Presented by The Shakespeare Project of Chicago

A trunk of letters, abandoned for nearly a century, unlocks a forgotten world. They reveal the passionate long-distance affair between Rhoda, confined to a TB sanitarium, and Jerry, a bookseller, in the tumultuous 1920s. Their words weave a story of a love that defiantly countered bigotry and political persecution with poetry, music, and left-wing ideals. Their struggles and joys played out in Chicago's bohemian underground, the Dill Pickle Club, bringing their rediscovered message of hope and resilience vividly to life.

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