Perhaps the simplest thing that has always held and still holds much significance in a relationship are written words. Carrying carefully spelled-out feelings, these notes of love keep the communication raw and honest, in a manner very few things do. 

Celebrating these missives of love between interesting persons across history is Readings in the Shed’s annual event, Letters of Love. Now in its fifth year, the edition will see letters exchanged between noted personalities across the field of science, literature, politics and performing arts. So you can hear words of passion by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov, former United States’ president George HW Bush, American marine biologist Rachel Carson, artist Georgia O’Keeffe, and Marilyn Monroe to the loves of their lives. Director Nikhil Katara stitches these together through a conversation with Cupid.