On a sweltering afternoon in 1864, two Civil War widows meet in a graveyard. Mirabelle is trying to paint a pineapple; Annaleigh needs to make sure that her husband hasn\u2019t turned into a vampire. Together, the women begin to imagine the futures that might await them beyond corsets, lockets, and bullets.\xa0
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HOW TO BE A WIDOW by Emmy nominee Tori Keenan-Zelt (Kilroys List, Bay Area Playwrights Festival) features Mary Bacon (Lost Girls, Coal Country) and Naomi Lorrain (\u201cOrange is the New Black,\u201d Behind the Sheet). Lucie Tiberghien (Moli\xe8re in the Park) directs. After the play, Tiberghien joins the cast, the playwright, and host Claudia Catania to discuss how the rules of womanhood and widowhood have \u2014 and haven\u2019t \u2014 changed from the Civil War to today.