THE STORY: The scene is the living room of the Mallory’s Midwestern home, where Kevin Mallory, a rather meek and malleable high school student, who has a history of striking out with girls, has decided to give a party (hopefully an orgy) in his parents’ absence. Encouraged by his more “sophisticated” friends, Artie and Bill, Kevin invites Eileen Sorenson, a new girl at school whom he’d like to get to know better and who, his buddies claim, is “hot” for him. However, all of Kevin’s plans go quickly and hilariously awry, and the party descends into chaos as fights break out, advances are rejected and resentment mounts. After the dust settles, Kevin comes to terms with the fact that he and his cohorts have behaved like jerks and that in order to be accepted by a girl she must be treated like a person and not an object. The blinding realization points Kevin toward a new direction in his relations with women and augurs for a better future as the play comes to its touching, bittersweet conclusion.
