No Way to Treat a Lady

Synopsis

A Musical

Genre: Drama Characters: 2 males and 2 females Scenery: Interior Alice Hogan, the widow and favorite model of renowned American sculptor Matthew Hogan, is having a bad birthday.

In London, she has attended her best friend's funeral with Ned, an old friend who is critical of the way she devoted her life to her husband's genius.

To make matters worse, she has to deal with Peggy, the manipulative representative of an American publisher interested in compiling a biography of the famous sculptor, and a delightful hustler from New York.

Peggy has a hidden agenda; she maneuvers Alice into revealing secrets from her younger days.

Ned, who is left to pick up the pieces of a shattered Alice, is driven to indulge his own insatiable curiosity.

Peggy and Alice realize that facing the future will require some fundamental adjustments.