Two strangers weaponize stationery until it becomes foreplay.
Hate Mail is an epistolary play something like Love Letters, with two actors reading letters and other correspondence, but it's a little wilder and more hysterically funny. It tells the story of Preston, a spoiled rich kid who meets his match in Dahlia, an angst-filled artist. Their worlds collide when Preston sends a complaint letter that gets Dahlia fired from her job, and then there's no turning back. The play stays with their increasingly crazed correspondence as they move from hate to love, and then right back again.
Acting
Tompkins and Seehorn weaponize every comma and sigh.
Writing
Correspondence as combat sport—sharper than most action films.
Production
Zoom theater constraints become creative fuel, not compromise.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during 2020 lockdowns, this represents a brief golden age of pandemic theater experiments before Zoom fatigue ruined everything.
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