Virgin Mary

Mary, a young woman in her early twenties, is determined to get drunk and lose her virginity after discovering that the boyfriend she had been saving herself for has betrayed her. She is wounded, reckless, and far more fragile than she wants anyone to see. Will, a kindly man sitting next to her, finds himself drawn into her orbit, and what begins as an uncomfortable proposition becomes something more complicated: a strange and tender encounter between two people who recognize each other’s hurt. As Mary gets increasingly drunk and more vulnerable, Will is forced to confront not only what she is asking of him, but what his own loneliness might allow him to consider.

Mary, early 20s, is a breakout, high-wire role for a young actress: a heartbroken young woman betrayed by her boyfriend. The part gives an actress bravado, sexual bluntness, intoxication, vulnerability, and a slow collapse of control — a showcase for someone who can make emotional damage funny, dangerous, and painfully human.

Will is a quiet, morally complicated role for an actor in his 40s: a rumpled divorced man faced with a proposition he’s not prepared to handle. The part gives an actor dry humor, restraint, tenderness, temptation, and uneasy self-recognition about a man discovering that decency can be harder to hold on to than he imagined.