A Lovesong for Miss Lydia

Her circumstances change, however, when, for reasons of loneliness (and a little extra income), she decides to take in a boarder

Her roomer turns out to be the charming, and apparently unscrupulous Mahlon, who loses no time in working his wiles on his trusting, vulnerable landlady, despite the cautious warnings of her well meaning, suspicious friends, Sarah and Ostell

And, for a time, it does appear that the suave, scheming Mahlon has bamboozled Miss Lydia into a course of action which will surely end in disenchantment and loss

But despite a series of sometimes funny, sometimes tense, confrontations, the sage and goodhearted old lady eventually proves that charity and understanding are more than a match for either duplicity or unfeeling prejudice and, as the play ends, it does indeed become a "lovesong" for its very remarkable and indomitable protagonist

" extraordinarily compelling " ~ NY Post