Carter W. Lewis' The Storytelling Ability of a Boy is a story that speaks to some universal truths. Who among us, no matter how smart or talented, has not at some point felt like they didn't fit in?

Dora and Peck, the teenagers at the center of Lewis' play, are wild, passionate, vulnerable and, on top of it all, unnervingly smart. Peck is the titular boy with a gift for storytelling, evident both in his written work and in the fantasies he conjures at the drop of a hat with Dora, his intellectual sparring partner. Their intelligence is especially obvious when they match wits with teacher Caitlin, no dummy herself, but who has the unenviable task of trying to teach two students who seem to resent the implication that there are things they don't know yet.