Fantasies at the Frick

At the Frick Museum in New York City, "a young male guard in his first day is so nervous about his ability to meet the requirements that he keeps fortifying himself with pills and cognac. A female guard of long standing reprimands him while encouraging him

She's so immersed in her job she's almost ecstatic about it but it's a mechanical ecstasy. A boy and a girl stroll in looking for pickups. They gravitate to each other instinctively

The two guards' tenuous self control is shaken as these two trendily attired dilettantes preening and posturing achieve a coupling which the guards may sneer at, but which they also envy. Consolation lies at hand as defenses fall

"The play is loaded with charming sentiment" ~ N.Y. Daily News