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''Love, Loss, and What I Wore'' is a play written by Nora and Delia Ephron based on the 1995 book of the same name by Ilene Beckerman. It is organized as a series of monologues and uses a rotating cast of five principal women. The subject matter of the monologues includes women's relationships and wardrobes and at times the interaction of the two, using the female wardrobe as a time capsule of a woman's life. The show was initially presented as a part of the 2008 summer series at Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York, and then as a benefit series at the DR2 Theatre in New York in early 2009. Later the same year, the show was produced Off-Broadway as an ongoing commercial theatrical production at the Westside Theatre in New York, where it continues to run as the second-longest running show in the theatre's history. The production and its cast received positive critical attention. The production won the 2010 Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience as well as the 2010 Broadway.com Audience Award for Favorite New Off-Broadway Play. The show has been produced on six continents and more than eight countries. It began a national tour in the United States in September 2011 in Chicago. It is making an encore performance in Paris in January 2012. ==Background and development== Nora Ephron was a writer, director and producer best known for writing the screenplays of romantic comedy films. She received three Academy Award nominations for Original Screenplay, for ''Silkwood'' (1983), ''When Harry Met Sally...'' (1989) and ''Sleepless in Seattle'' (1993). She had also written five best-selling books,〔 and she wrote the 2002 play ''Imaginary Friends'', which fictionalizes the antagonistic relationship between Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy. Ephron sometimes co-authored screenplays with her sister, writer-producer Delia Ephron, including ''You've Got Mail'' (1998), ''Hanging Up'' (2000) and ''Bewitched'' (2005).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nora Ephron )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Delia Ephron )〕 Nora Ephron wrote the introduction to Beckerman's eponymous 1995 book, which she immediately thought had dramatic possibilities.〔 She identified with the stories in ''Love, Loss, and What I Wore'' because the book "is not about fashion; it is about what clothes really are to us, those moments when we are constantly trying to find our identity through them".〔 Soon after its publication, Ephron gave the book to eight of her friends for Christmas. She became interested in writing her own version of the book.〔 Once she decided to adapt ''Love, Loss, and What I Wore'' into a play, she and her sister emailed 100 women for stories.〔 The show's monologues are sourced largely from Beckerman's book.〔 The Ephrons wove together a collection of stories adapted from the book with recollections of friends, including Rosie O'Donnell.〔〔 One of the monologues that became a highlight of the original production was based on Nora Ephron's 2006 best-seller ''I Feel Bad About My Neck''.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Love, Loss, and What I Wore」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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