When Allen’s feisty sixty-eight-year-old great-grandmother, Della, suffers a debilitating stroke, his parents send him to spend the summer supervising her convalescence  in a dilapidated nursing home. Watching soap operas with a stroke victim is not a teenager’s idea of a summer vacation. Yet, over the summer, Allen discovers the responsibility of connection, the blossom of love, and the joy of overcoming fears.  What starts as a comedy about two people who resent being in the same room together develops into drama as family secrets are revealed and old wounds are healed.

A poetic reckoning with the passing of time, where love and regret shift like sand in memory’s glass.

The Studio presents staged readings of selected past First Look plays by our Studio playwrights, reimagined and reworked with your input. Seven plays will be presented after revisions have been made based on the feedback the playwright received from the First Look audience. As always, participation is FREE (or pay what you can) and you can tell us what you think and feel about the revised plays.