Beau Jest

James Sherman’s heartwarming play centers on a beautiful young school teacher from Chicago, and asks the the question: How far will can a person go to please his or her parents?

Convinced that her parents won’t approve of her gentile boyfriend, an eager-to-please daughter hires an actor to play the man of her mother’s dreams (not just a doctor; a surgeon!) until she can work up the nerve to tell them the truth. But when her parents fall in love with her new beau, can she remember not to do the same?