Love Letters Live

A handmade card to your primary school crush. An angsty diary entry. A risky double text. Love letters – in all forms – have long helped us express what’s hard to say out loud.

This Valentine's Day, join us for Love Letters Live, when we turn the private into the public – inviting audiences to witness the beauty and messiness of love.

Presented as part of our Rebel Heart program series and hosted by comedian Nina Oyama (Utopia, Deadloch, Taskmaster Australia), this intimate event brings together some of Australia’s most beloved comics and emerging performers to read their own love letters live – baring all for an evening of longing and laughter.

Funny, poetic, raw and deeply human, their courageous confessions will blend standup, theatre and uninhibited storytelling in this playful and personal ode to expressions of the heart.

Rebel Heart: Love letters and other declarations will be open to guests before the event (from 6.15pm) and during the interval.

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Presented by State Library Victoria with Melbourne International Comedy Festival

Nina Oyama is an award-winning writer, director, actor and comedian, best known for her work on Deadloch and Utopia. Her TV writing credits include You’re Skitting Me (ABC), Love Me (Binge), Yolo Crystal Fantasy (Adult Swim) and Class of 07 (Amazon). Nina also co-created the AACTA Award winning SBS series Latecomers. As a standup comedian, she has sold out multiple seasons at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, opened for Hannah Gadsby, and appeared on Taskmaster Australia, Just For Laughs Sydney, Thank God You’re Here, Spicks and Specks and more.

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