HOW TO BE A WIDOW by Tori Keenan-Zelt
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English - November 08, 2020 09:30 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsPerforming Arts Arts TV & Film act broadway drama entertainment pulitzer radio stage story storytelling acting Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
On a sweltering afternoon in 1864, two Civil War widows meet in a graveyard. Mirabelle is trying to paint a pineapple; Annaleigh needs to make sure that her husband hasn’t turned into a vampire. Together, the women begin to imagine the futures that might await them beyond corsets, lockets, and bullets.
HOW TO BE A WIDOW by Emmy nominee Tori Keenan-Zelt (Kilroys List, Bay Area Playwrights Festival) features Mary Bacon (Lost Girls, Coal Country) and Naomi Lorrain (“Orange is the New Black,” Behind the Sheet). Lucie Tiberghien (Molière in the Park) directs. After the play, Tiberghien joins the cast, the playwright, and host Claudia Catania to discuss how the rules of womanhood and widowhood have — and haven’t — changed from the Civil War to today.