Lydia & Maynard: Love Letters

Full of humour, tenderness and passion, this performance charts the happiest and healthiest marriage in all of the Bloomsbury group.

‘My Loppy, my Lydochka, my miele, my poupsik, my tail, my buzzing bee…’

– John Maynard Keynes to Lydia Lopokova

In a specially commissioned piece that was originally planned for and sold-out at Charleston Festival 2020, Helena Bonham Carter and Tobias Menzies read the intense love letters that passed between Lydia Lopokova, star of the Ballets Russes, and brilliant economist John Maynard Keynes.

Full of humour, tenderness and passion, this performance charts the happiest and healthiest marriage in all of the Bloomsbury group. Compiled by Charleston’s reader-in-residence, Holly Dawson.

‘When I am on the Downs in the morning I feel that I am having a cocktail with God. I roll with the grass and the hangings and wonder if I am losing time.’

– Lydia Lopokova to John Maynard Keynes