Love, loss and what I wore.
‘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. It is organized as a series of monologues and uses a rotating cast of five principal women. The subject matter of the monologues includes women’s relationships and wardrobes and, at times, the interaction of the two, using the female wardrobe as a time capsule of a woman’s life. This was, for me, as a man, an interesting foray into the world of the opposite gender. I had chosen the piece since we had such an array of talented women actors. They each brought so much of themselves, in the shape of their vocal ranges, histories and personal stories, to dress up the many parts.
The show was dedicated to the memory of my good friend and set builder George Surrey with whom I spent many hours building and chewing the fat.