An artistic child who comes of age in the 1950s, she morphs into an unhappy woman - a rebel manqué descended into substance abuse. Gurney gives Melissa a sneaky kind of depth. “You can tear up letters, though,” she snaps in reply. “One thing about letters: you can’t hang up on them.” “I’m writing because when I telephoned, you just hung up on me,” Andy scrawls to a miffed Melissa at some point in their college years. Patrick Campbell, the series concludes with Matthew Broderick and Laura Benanti in “Love Letters” (May 30-June 3), whose Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and Melissa Gardner - friends since second grade - are fictional characters in the customary Gurney mold: white, Protestant, preppy. Starting with Melissa Errico and David Staller in Jerome Kilty’s play “Dear Liar” (through Sunday), which is adapted from the decades-long exchange between George Bernard Shaw and the actress Mrs. Irish Repertory Theater’s Letters Series appeals to that predilection.
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