A Letter for Queen Victoria is a theatrical work written and directed by Robert Wilson with music by Alan Lloyd.
[1] Others, such as critic Clive Barnes and literary scholar Charles Bernstein, have called it a play, while admitting that its genre was virtually impossible to define.
A Letter for Queen Victoria work marked Wilson's first use of language in his theatrical pieces, which previously had all involved the actors and dancers moving silently.
A Letter for Queen Victoria, his next project was inspired and acted by another of his child muses, Christopher Knowles, a 14-year-old autistic boy whose poetry Wilson had discovered in early 1973.
[4] After its premiere at the Festival dei Due Mondi in June 1974, it was performed later that year in La Rochelle and Paris.