{"id":2135,"date":"2024-11-27T10:24:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T15:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2024-12-02T09:29:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T14:29:43","slug":"play-reading-and-talk-back-the-widow-a-play-by-ruth-zamoyta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/2024\/11\/27\/play-reading-and-talk-back-the-widow-a-play-by-ruth-zamoyta\/","title":{"rendered":"Play Reading and Talk-Back: &#8220;The Widow&#8221; &#8211; a play by Ruth Zamoyta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in;font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book';font-size: 12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Play Reading and Talk-Back: &#8220;The Widow&#8221; &#8211; A Play by Ruth Zamoyta<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book';font-size: 12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Dec. 9, 6:00pm &#8211; 8:00pm <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book';font-size: 12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">University Center Theater<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book';font-size: 12.0pt\">Join us for a reading of Ruth Zamoyta&#8217;s play, &#8220;The Widow,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book';font-size: 12.0pt\">a timely drama about aging and friendship. The reading will be followed by a discussion with the playwright, actors, and director.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book';font-size: 12.0pt\">&#8220;The Widow&#8221;: Cece, a childless widow, finds memories and words slipping away, one by one. Her caring but misguided friend Lois convinces her to find a husband while she still has looks and wits. When Cece&#8217;s lovers turn out to be vile and abusive, she uses her chemistry skills to dispatch of them, one by one. Inspired by the true story of serial-killer Isao Kakehi (the \u201cBlack Widow\u201d of Japan), THE WIDOW explores a tender friendship between two senior women and their desperate attempts to avoid aging alone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play Reading and Talk-Back: &#8220;The Widow&#8221; &#8211; A Play by Ruth Zamoyta Dec. 9, 6:00pm &#8211; 8:00pm University Center Theater Join us for a reading of Ruth Zamoyta&#8217;s play, &#8220;The&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1797,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-faculty-opportunities","category-forthcoming-events"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2141,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions\/2141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}