LOVE, LOSS AND WHAT I WORE
by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron
based on the book by Ilene Beckerman
Barns of Rose Hill proudly presents this program in partnership with the Winchester Little Theatre.
About: Love, Loss and What I Wore is an award-winning play by Nora and Delia Ephron (based on the book by Ilene Beckerman) that became the second longest-running show at the Westside Theater in NYC in 2010.
It is structured as a series of monologues using a rotating cast of five women playing multiple roles. Clothing, specific pieces or entire outfits, are powerful, evocative memory markers of where we were, who we were with, and what we were feeling at the time. It is a beautiful comedy of errors, triumphs, and growing pains, interwoven with poignant life markers shared with humor and self-awareness. In 2010, it won both a Drama Desk Award and an Audience Award for Favorite New Off-Broadway Play.
Critical Review: “The Ephrons have added on to Beckerman’s closet, collecting stories by other women and fashioning these confessions into an evening of monologues…[They] understand how powerfully our closets speak to us, how they can mock, affirm, inspire…Clothes are also time capsules that hold our past identities, previous body shapes, and hopes seized or abandoned…For millions of women, clothes aren’t just “cover,” as one character puts it, they’re a gateway drug to a more serious addiction: the pursuit of a self (or selves) imagined but not yet achieved.” — The Los Angeles Times
About Winchester Little Theatre: The Winchester Little Theatre is a non-profit, all-volunteer community theater organization housed in the old Pennsylvania Railroad freight station in downtown Winchester, Virginia. The Theatre offers a robust schedule of five main theatrical productions each year, in addition to summer children’s programs and frequent Readers’ Theater events. Learn more »
First Showing: Saturday, April 20, 2024. Doors will open at 6:00 p.m. and the 90-minute play will begin promptly at 7:00 p.m.
Second Showing: Sunday, April 21, 2024. Doors will open at 1:00 p.m. and the 90-minute play will begin promptly at 2:00 p.m.
Ticket Price: $20 general admission. Active members of the Barns of Rose Hill and/or the Winchester Little Theatre are eligible to receive a $5 discount on general admission seating. Contact the organization of which you are a member to request a discount code.
Ticket Information: Register online or by calling the Barns of Rose Hill Box Office at 540-955-2004 (Noon to 3:00 PM – Tuesday through Saturday). When our Box Office is closed, please leave a message. All ticket sales are final; no exceptions or exchanges.
Copies of Ilene Beckerman’s book are available for purchase at the Barns of Rose Hill.