Shown is the cast of Love Loss and What I Wore which will be performed Friday night, April 26. In the front are Ava Weldy, Gwen Frank, McKenna Clay, Allyssa Perkins, Windsor Bonner and Samantha Rose. In the back are Brooke Aleman, Sophia Rush, Karissa Boesenberg and Sophia Smith. Photo provided by Kristin Bonner.

By Lauren Zeugner
InkFreeNews

SYRACUSE — For one night only, members of Wawasee Performing Arts and International Thespian Society will perform Love, Loss and What I Wore, a play written by Nora and Delia Ephron based on the book written by Ilene Beckerman. The performance will be at 7 p.m. Friday, April 26, in the Wawasee High School Auditorium. The play is being produced with permission from Dramatists Play Service.

Admittance is either a financial donation or clothing item to The Hanger, Wawasee High’s School’s clothing store. The store is overseen by Women of Today. Donated clothing items may be for boys or girls, should be clean and should be something a high school student would wear. The Hanger is open to all Wawasee High School students.

“It’s about clothes and clothes are a part of your memory as a woman,” Bonner said about the play.

Teacher Kristin Bonner is directing the cast of 10 female students, sophomores through seniors. Bonner explained the girls were going to do the play, which is done as a series of monologues, for a competition in the fall. However delays in licensing forced the cast to pick something else for competition.

Bonner, a fan of Nora Ephron’s work, which includes “Silkwood,” “When Harry Met Sally” and “Sleepless in Seattle” along with “You’ve Got Mail,” still wanted to do the play. She explained she had wanted to do a play that was women focused for a while since she had a large number of senior girls in the International Thespian Society graduating this year. Five of the cast members in Love, Loss and What I Wore are seniors.

“They are all very good at thinking off the top of their head in front of an audience,” Bonner said of the cast members.

A friend of hers is involved with Women of Today and suggested the performance as a fundraiser for The Hanger. Members of Women of Today will be on hand to accept the donations and to serve refreshments during intermission.

The set for the play will be very minimalist, with a row of 10 mismatched chairs. On the sides are clothes hangers with sketches of the clothing the characters are discussing. The girls will be dressed in black for the performance.