The Colonial Players is ending its 72
nd season with a play that has more to it than initially meets the eye. “Love, Loss and What I Wore” is a journey through women’s lives and how the clothes we wear reflect different realities. The clothes aren’t meant to define women, but they speak volumes about who the wearer is and what her hopes, dreams, successes, and failures are. They evoke memories that ground us and launch us into the world. Not bad for a dress or pair of pants…
…or in one hysterical scene, a training bra. Now in all honesty, I never went shopping for one (my mother just handed me one when I was 13), but evidently that is a memorable rite of passage for a lot of females. The seven actresses that populate The Colonial Players stage effortlessly milked every laugh out of it. It was a funny and appalling vignette telling how girls’ and women’s bodies begin to be judged and policed in new ways when they hit a certain age.