Wayland Resident Presents Play On Reincarnation And Abortion To Packed House

WAYLAND, MA—Wayland Resident and Brandeis University Resident Scholar in the Women’s Studies Research Center (WSRC), recently had her inter-generational play about reincarnation and abortion presented at Brandeis University to a full house.

Directed by Ronn Smith, "Myths and Ms." is an exercise in debunking stereotypes, and featured Annette Miller of Shakespeare & Co. as the lead Ruth, a middle-aged woman stunned by the recent death of her mother; Ruth believes in reincarnation, but her husband Jack, a politically correct lawyer who had a role in the Roe V. Wade case, can’t buy it.

Their daughter Libby has an African American lover, not much older than her college-age daughter Tamar. The function of a table reading is to allow the playwright to hear the words enacted, to receive feedback from the talk back, and to eventually incorporate it into the next revision of the play. Smith also served as dramaturge for the script. Rosenzweig has a publisher waiting for the manuscript. Welcoming the crowd was Shula Reinharz, founder and retiring WSRC director.

Remarks by Nick Danforth, who hired Sarah Weddington the lawyer who won Roe V. Wade, gave attendees behind-the-scenes backstories to the lady known as “Roe,” who recently died.

Information and photo submitted by Rosie Rosenzweig, resident scholar, Brandeis University, Women's Studies Research Center