Everyone’s a Stranger

A staged reading of the first half of Nancy Davidoff Kelton’s play Everyone’s a Stranger. Joanna, an engaging, complex woman of 50, journeys toward self-love and understanding her mother. Mom was in a mental institution, which Joanna called “the nervous hospital” to make her father laugh. Being funny was Joanna’s calling card. That had a price. So did her attachment to Dad. She evolves.