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Topanga Actors Company is featuring five wonderful local actresses in a FREE staged reading of Nora & Delia Ephron's play: Love, Loss, & What I Wore, June 8th & June 9th at 2pm.
What catches our attention in older family photos, imagery in similarly old magazines, and even vintage photos sold at antique stores, swap meets, or estate sales? Hair, shoe, & clothing styles. Even a black and white photo grabs our attention as we look at the stately styles of yesteryear or evidence in tiny hints of a harsher and more austere era. Conversely family photos elicit memories, often attached to the clothing worn, of the characteristics of those portrayed. "Do you remember that shirt..... that dress..... oh how she loved it....oh how he loved that color....
Topanga Actors Company is featuring five wonderful local actresses in a staged reading of the much beloved play, written by Nora and Delia Ephron, about women, memory, and clothes. Love, Loss, and What I Wore, Love, Loss and What I Wore | - June 8th & June
Based on Ilene Beckerman's book and featuring Beckerman's illustrations. The cast in alpha order: Zuri Alexander, Carmen Flood, Kamaskhi Hart, Elizabeth Herron, Jeanette Vigne
Free, open seating, library parking. Info topangaactorscompany@theatercompany.org.
Topanga Library
122 North Topanga Canyon Blvd
Topanga , CA 90290
The mission of Topanga Actors Company is to bring contemporary theater works
to audiences in Topanga Canyon and beyond. Topanga locals Paula LaBrot and Judith Hendra founded the group in 2015. They are a 501(c)(3) not- for- profit.
Delia Ephron collaborated with her elder sister, Nora, on Love, Loss, and What I Wore, which ran for over two and a half years Off-Broadway.
Nora passed away, at the age of 71, in 2012, from pneumonia, as a complication of leukemia. A small sampling of the screenplays and productions attributed to the sisters include
- Mixed Nuts (1994)
- Michael (1996)
- You've Got Mail (1998)
- Hanging Up (2000)
- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)
- Bewitched (2005)
- Julie & Julia (2009)
More News from Topanga
- Support LAFD Thru Private Foundation Approximately 97% of the city's fire budget is allocated towards personnel costs, leaving just 3% to cover all other life-safety costs.
- Tradition of Candlelight Services for Christmas Locally many Churches highlight the Christmas Eve service(s) with candles being lit and each member of the congregation lighting their neighbor candle.
