A surreal romp in eight scenes: Set in a formal ballroom, this romp in eight scenes follows the comic and often painful adventures of Lucy, a stranger in a strange land growing up the awkward daughter of beautiful, charming and eternally young Cecelia and Edward, who frequent the ballroom to pick up fleeting friends and lovers. Born on stage, brought on in a red wagon, Lucy has to get her parents’ attention between dance sets. The play, which takes place during the course of one evening in the lives of Edward and Cecelia and throughout the years of Lucy’s life, is written from the point of view of a child struggling to make sense of the often incomprehensible world of adults where confusing codes of etiquette and dictates of style – decrees only they seem to understand – appear to rule over honest emotions and common sense.   

Kennedy Center ACTF Regional Playwriting Award

Shenandoah Playwrights Retreat Fellowship