Love, Loss & White I Wore - Child [7 Nov] $15 Add to Cart. Presented by Centenary Theatre GroupTheatre Performance. Based on the bestselling book by Ilene Beckerman, Love, Loss and What I Wore is a play of monologues and ensemble pieces that cover all the important subjects—mothers, prom dresses, mothers, buying first bras, mothers, hating purses and why women wear only black. “Love, Loss, and What I Wore” encapsulates the collective experience of women who have fought to express themselves, but it also pokes fun at their digressions. A play of monologues and ensemble pieces about women, clothes and memory It covers all the important subjects - mothers, prom dresses, mothers, buying bras, mothers, hating purses And why we only wear black Based on the bestselling book by Ilene Beckerman REVIEWS "Funny, compelling… It is very much like sitting down with your best female friends, in your most comfy clothes, listening to their innermost thoughts and feelings. 5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully evocative book. We’d laugh about how great our lives turned out and make plans for the things we were still going to do. The truth is, I have no fashion sense – never did. Clothes are just something I use for cover, leaving room for one electric blue memory. From the Back Cover. Love, Loss and What I Wore. ... “Love, Loss, and What I Wore” digs into the arcane algebra of female fashion. It would be at a café where we would have salad and like it. By Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron Based on the book by Ilene Beckerman Directed by Rhyll Bucknell. Directed by Rhyll Bucknell. “Love, Loss, and What I Wore” is organized as a series of monologues and uses a rotating cast of five principal women, plus one ‘wardrobe assistant.’ The subject matter […] I would know what went with what, and everything I tried on would fit. “My Mom had the same bathrobe in blue.”  “Oh,” she said. Love, Loss and What I Wore A play of monologues & ensemble pieces about women, clothes & memories by Delia Ephron, Ilene Beckerman, and Nora Ephron Performances: Jan 24-Feb 2 2020, Fri,Sat 7:30 pm/Sun 2:30 pm Location: Tualatin Heritage Center, Tualatin OR Directed by Linda Talluto Anne Marie Lewis/Katie Barberi She died when she was 39 years old. Start: Last summer I lost my favourite... Start: The truth is, I have no fashion... Hershey Felder in "A Paris Love Story" -- A Recording of the Live-Streamed Musical Event from Florence. ‘Love, Loss, and What I Wore’ deals with some sensitive issues, but it is by no means a heavy piece. ), same-sex marriage, motherhood, divorce, grief, rape and cancer – ‘Love, Loss, and What I Wore’ is an intimate collection of monologues and ensemble stories told by five women, using clothes and accessories to evoke a myriad of memories. That first morning she was there, I was eating breakfast with a few of my siblings when my new stepmom walked down the stairs and into the kitchen. I guess he thought we could best recover from the trauma of her death by living in a war zone. Electric blue. She was wearing a long burgundy velour three-quarter sleeve zip bathrobe with a thick vertical white stripe, down the center, surrounding the zipper. Call your best girl … The truth is, I have no fashion sense – never did. “Mary,” I said. It would be at a café where we would have salad and like it. Helpful. Love, Loss and What I Wore is an intimate collection of stories about women and their lives based on the bestselling book of the same title by Ilene Beckerman. Love, Loss, and What I Wore is a play written by Nora and Delia Ephron based on the 1995 book of the same name by Ilene Beckerman. ... “Love, Loss, and What I Wore… Female Monologue Blog Sunday, 8 February 2015. But that morning, I knew that rule was about to be broken. No one said a word. Love, Loss and What I Wore video clips including performance examples. She was wearing a long burgundy velour three-quarter sleeve zip bathrobe with a thick vertical white stripedown the center, surrounding the zipper. Buy Love, Loss and What I Wore by Ephron, Nora, Ephron, Delia (ISBN: 9780822223559) from Amazon's Book Store. Sign up today to unlock amazing theatre resources and opportunities. The Clothing Monologues — oops, I mean Love, Loss and What I Wore, begins, like the book, with Gingy's 1940s Brownie uniform. If you can improve it further, please do so. She was a schoolteacher named Mary May. RAGE AMONGST YOURSELVES, by Amy Beth Arkawy. Love, Loss and What I Wore is a collection of monologues and ensemble pieces about women reflecting on memories of favorite clothing items, their mothers, prom dresses, finding the right bra, successful and not so successful marriages, only wearing black, to name a few. Research Playwrights, Librettists, Composers and Lyricists, Rosie / Gingy’s Mother / Lisa / Nancy’s Mother / Doctor, Love, Loss and What I Wore guide sections. Based on the bestselling book by Ilene Beckerman. I would know what went with what, and everything I tried on would fit. My siblings left the kitchen. PAM. 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