“Ida, Doris and Lucille are Jewish widows who visit their husband’s graves faithfully every month. They share with their husbands the news of the neighborhood, and try to make it an event both to honor them and remember them.”
This is the beginning of the synopsis of “The Cemetery Club,” a play to be presented by Grassroots Community Theater on July 12, 13 and 14. Grassroots is a volunteer organization that puts on plays at various locations in the Worthington area. This year’s performances will be at the Minnesota wet Fine Arts Theater.
“These Jewish widows are funny, and very human,” explains Director Mary Jane Mardesen. “This is a piece of theatre that will entertain, but also move you to think and feel.”
As the story synopsis continues, “two of the three women are beginning to realize that they are having one-sided conversations and that trying to keep their husbands alive is not giving them very interesting lives. They want to move on and perhaps get back into the dating social scene again. Of course, the third widow is very happy continuing the practice of the visits and is appalled at the other two.”
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