THE STORY: Victor Spinelli, a frustrated athlete who now works for his domineering father, finds his greatest satisfaction in coaching a little league baseball team. He is given to bluster, but beneath this he is both sensitive and touchingly vulnerable. His relationship with his wife, who is preoccupied with acting in amateur theatre, is growing cool, but he finds a kindred spirit in the mother of one of his team members, an abandoned wife who comes by to ask that Victor show more concern for her bench-warmer son. She stays for a drink and gradually, as confidences are exchanged, we sense that out of the bitterness and failure that both have known a new and promising liaison is forming for them both.
This imaginative, funny and revealing play explores the meeting of two “losers,” who find a chord of understanding growing subtly but surely between them.
Included in the collection
Three One-Act Plays by Jason Miller.
