Maytag Virgin
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The Colonial Players 108 East Street, Annapolis, Maryland 21401
In rural Alabama, the only thing worse than being the town slut is being the town widow. At least that’s how Lizzy Nash has felt since her husband died in a roofing accident. She spends her days reading quietly on her back porch, which is adorned with a collection of wind chimes; she’s avoiding going back to her job as a high school English teacher. However, that quiet ends when widower and high school physics teacher Jack Key moves into the abandoned house next door and installs a Maytag dryer on his back porch. Lizzy makes her way over to tell Jack to remove the dryer from the porch, and they discover a bag of love letters exchanged between the previous tenant, an old widower, and his wife during their 40-year relationship. Convinced that the old man’s spirit is still in the house, Jack starts sleeping outside, and he and Lizzy bond over conversations about grief, laundry and regret in the backyard. As the seasons change, Jack and Lizzy read through the letters, and start to write a love story of their own. Maytag Virgin is the story of how long it takes to move in, and move on, after loss.