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What if La La Land chose love over ambition? What if The Notebook kept going 50 years later? When a granddaughter uncovers a box of forgotten love letters, she finds herself slipping between a 1956 Brooklyn summer alive with possibility and a present-day American diner steeped in nostalgia. Inspired by hundreds of real letters, Letters to Joan is an intimate new play to capture every Fringe-goer's heart, about the dreams we chase, the ones we abandon, and the unshakeable longing for the life that might have been.
This is an archived listing from the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Letters to Joan – A Lovely New Play is by Finding Forests and Richard Jordan Productions in association with Pleasance, listed under Theatre in the Fringe programme. It plays at Pleasance Courtyard, 60 Pleasance, EH8 9TJ, 5 August to 31 August.
The show runs 60 minutes and is suitable for ages 12+. Tickets from £9. Content warnings: Distressing or triggering themes.