What’s the Buzz? Put on your fun duds and come to the show!
Love Loss and What I Wore“Love, Loss, and What I Wore” Opens at the Lincoln Theater Friday
River Company and Lincoln Theater, collaborating in staged reading production of the insightful “Love, Loss, and What I Wore,” present vignettes, stories and monologues based on Ilene Beckerman’s best seller on Friday June 28 at 7 PM and Saturday June 29 at 2 and 7PM at the Lincoln Theater in Damariscotta.
The stage will be dressed in items worn and loved (or hated) by cast members. Among them, a fur coat, a wedding dress, and a pair of beloved sneakers. The Schiaparelli coat was discovered during an attic clean out at the Camden Opera House and it fit actress Dagney Ernest perfectly, while most likely a Camden Civic Theater costume, it might have once belonged to the Camden Opera House ghost. For those unaware, a seat is always left vacant for Sally at every show at the Opera House. Articles of clothing spark imagination and memory and this delightful piece of theater does both.
Audience members are invited to get into their closets and find items that either please them or remind them of important times in their lives. Dress up in whatever makes you smile or remember or laugh or simply show up and enjoy this wonderful cast of women telling delightful stories in the air conditioned comfort of the historic Lincoln Theater.
River Company co-directors Eleanor Cade Busby and Nick Azzaretti bring together dynamic Midcoast actors, Dagney Ernest, Christina Belknap, Carole Florman, Judy McQuillen, Zora Margolis, Christine Thalia Andersen, and Laurie Brown, who deliver the experiences of 29 women. Quotes that will resonate from childhood ring out , “ My Grandmother had two cures. Hot tea for anything inside the body, and Vaseline for anything outside,” “You can’t wear that, they will send you home from school,” “Are you trying to kill me wearing that?”
River Company and the Lincoln Theater have garnered support from Skidompha Library for rehearsal space and friends and neighbors for various props. In the spirit of true Community Theater, it takes a village or villages to bring live theater to the stage. Damon Leibert, Technical Director at the Lincoln Theater, is lighting the stage and providing special touches.
Tickets are $20 for adults, $18 for Lincoln Theater members, and $5 for youth 18 and under. All ticket sales are final – Nonrefundable and Nonexchangeable.
All tickets are available for purchase at the door beginning 30 minutes before showtime, or in advance* through Lincoln Theater’s online box office at lcct.org.
*Advance tickets or confirmation emails may be printed for admission OR you may check in with your email address at the theater box office when you arrive.
Presented in Partnership with River Company & Lincoln Theater
Love Loss and What I Wore
Carole in a favorite hat.
Dagney in a coat that may have belonged to Camden Opera House’s own resident ghost Sally— 
Judy in a favorite outfit from high school
ZORA !!!
Laurie Brown....
Christine Andersen
Christina Belknap- Favorite army coat
About this blog:
, 
What's the Buzz? About the Author
Eleanor Cade Busby: Unpublished, Unfiltered, and Unrepentant
Eleanor Cade Busby is an unpublished award-winning writer, photographer, blogger, and chronic user of the Oxford comma. She simply adores writing about herself in the third person, and therefore considers this bio a personal highlight of her literary career.
-
Writing from Midcoast Maine, where the air is salty, the coffee is strong, and the opinions come with footnotes.
A preacher’s kid who made it her mission to lovingly obliterate every single stereotype about “the minister’s daughter,” Busby grew up all over New England collecting stories, theater programs, and at least three kinds of student loan debt. She attended Goddard College, the Rhode Island Conservatory of Music, and the School of Life—majoring in everything she could wedge into her skull without a crowbar.
She has had her own office (with an actual door!) and a red stapler that was not to be touched, thank you very much. She has worked in social services for decades, won both national and local awards, and was recently named a co-recipient of the PEN/Toni and James C. Goodale Freedom of Expression Courage Award—along with one million of her closest friends—for being loud in the best way possible.
Busby has directed more plays than she can count, acted in more than she should probably admit, and written a few too—including some that were performed on purpose. She’s done everything in theater except hang the lights, because she has a strict “no ladders” clause in her personal safety policy.
Her work has appeared in publications ranging from earnest local weeklies to CRACKED magazine, which pretty much sums up her range. She believes if it isn’t funny or relevant, it probably belongs in a compost heap, not her blog.
Eleanor lives in Midcoast Maine with a cat who believes in early-morning blood sacrifice (hers), and she writes "What's the Buzz?" to chronicle what’s happening, what might be happening, and what absolutely should be happening, according to her and no one else.
Suggestions for topics and comments are always welcome at eleanorcadebusby@hotmail.com
Recent Posts:
