A play for 6 characters (2 men, 4 women).

New York 1972. On his wedding day, Ronald Carmichael, a successful author, has just lost his most valuable collaborator.

How to replace him? A young, short-sighted schoolteacher named Penelope Craddock comes along. She arrives from the provinces and she writes too. In fact, she writes quite well. Ronald Carmichael is the idol of her youth, and the genre she prefers is the traditional romantic comedy: a man and a woman meet by chance, pretend to hate each other and spend two hours hesitating on the edge of the bed.

The same day, Ronald hires Penelope, whose talent he has sensed. And so begins a ten-year collaboration, in which they experience triumph and failure, each as inexplicable as the other. Ronald likes order, both in his heart and in his papers. He meticulously protects himself against all sentimental traps, tirelessly flexing his sense of humor like a muscle. Penelope’s whimsical, unkempt, outspoken personality will turn his pacified world upside down. For ten years, Ronald and Penelope will live side by side in the funniest, most unusual, most classic of their plays. They will live, without even noticing it, what they find so hard to write. Between the reality of their feelings and the convention of theater, the back-and-forth is incessant.