Coming of Age in Soho

But his eagerly sought tranquility is interrupted by a series of unexpected visitors: first a young runaway, Di, who is escaping from prep school and uptight family

Then an astonishingly precocious teenager with a German accent (Puer) who informs Beatrice that he is his son by a German terrorist with whom Beatrice had a brief but intense fling

And finally his estranged wife, Patricia, a Mafia-connected lawyer who is running for Congress and wants Beatrice back so as not to lose the Catholic vote

Caught in a sometimes poignant, sometimes hilarious crossfire of temptations and demands, Beatrice struggles to sort things out, for himself and the others, arriving

In the end, at a resolution that is filled with wisdom, rich with humor and touched with nobility - all at the same time

"The action is so bountiful, brimming over with comic and dramatic ingenuity - wonderful surprises (sight and sound) - that I can't even think about it now without laughing " - The New Yorker

"bustling with the frenzy of imaginative life the play has a heartiness and fullness of vision that is all too rare in the contemporary theater" - NY Times