Historic Community Theatre in Wayland, MA

Maytag Virgin

By Audrey Cefaly

Directed by Celia Couture (Silent Sky)

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Jack Key: Craig Ciampa

Lizzy Nash: Jennifer Shea

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Friday, July 21 8pm
Saturday, July 22 2pm & 8pm
Thursday, July 27 & Friday, July 28 8pm
Saturday, July 29 2pm & 8pm
Thursday, Aug. 3 & Friday, Aug. 4 8pm
Saturday, Aug.  5 2pm & 8pm

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In Maytag Virgin, Audrey Cefaly’s 21st-century take on romance after loss, two neighbors are working through their own pain and guilt, each finding a way back to the “land of the living” after losing their spouse. Jack has just moved to this Alabama neighborhood to start working at the high school that Lizzy has lately taken time off from, still grieving from the death of her husband. Jack spends much of the first year in his new home updating and redecorating it, but he has left a Maytag dryer sitting on his porch for what some people (Lizzy included) would feel is way too long. Lizzy always dries her laundry on clothes lines and is suspicious about this machine; she also makes it a point to express her displeasure with Jack’s refusal to move the Maytag inside. It takes some time and effort from them both, but eventually, Lizzy starts loosening up around Jack. Over the course of Jack’s first year in the neighborhood, he and Lizzy find a path towards friendship and beyond. They are coming to terms with their losses and accepting what they have gained in the aftermath.