Reckless

A dark comedy of Christmas lost and Christmas regained by the author of Prelude to a Kiss, Reckless has a plot so tumultuous that it’s better experienced than recounted. Its wide-eyed heroine has the rug pulled out from under her life by violent dislocations, always on Christmas Eve, and spends a lifetime coming to terms with the world’s recklessness. Lucas keeps his characters suspended somewhere between parable and the Keystone Kops, and yet, as Frank Rich wrote admiringly, the play “has a simple emotional pull akin to that of a Crosby ballad.”

Director George Mulford has assembled an incredible cast of actors to tell this wickedly funny story. Nikki Bell of Moylan plays wide-eyed Rachel, and she’s joined by Channing Benson of Swarthmore, Judith David of Newark, Stephen Kelly of Drexel Hill, Jim Ludovici and Judith Stevenson of Media, and Leslie Lorene Ryan of Philadelphia.