Dear Master

Aurora Theatre
2081 Addison Street Berkeley

Step back into the romantic age of letter-writing via Dear Master, an elegantly orchestrated play following the 13 years of letter exchange between legendary 19th-century French novelists Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, better known as George Sand, and Gustave Flaubert. Their powerful friendship was fueled through "productive discussions" of fierce, opposing arguments revolving around politics, art and the literary world of their time. A shimmering glimpse into the brilliant psyches of Flaubert, the literary realist pioneer, and the iconoclast Sand, who protested the social restrictions of women by adopting male dress for a period, Dear Master offers further insight into a world of political turmoil and deeply-held passions. The play also won the Bay Area Critics Circle Award for Best Script in 1991. Watch the unlikely friendship of these intellectual writers come to life at the Aurora Theatre Company in downtown Berkeley.