Nick Desimone as Harvey and Shayna Lawson as Cindy, New York, 2011. Photo by Ken Coughlin.

Fallen to the Communists is a comedy about a widower who talks to his dead wife while trying to cope with his 12 year old daughter growing up and having her first period. I'm pleased with the structure of it - three scenes with nice reversals, all in a ten minute play. The title comes from an English term, roughly equivalent to saying a girl has her Aunt Flo come to visit, or she's fallen off her monthly bicycle or the sharks are circling.

Fallen to the Communists premiered in June 2011 at the TestoGeniusFestival in New York. Now playing at Manhattan Theatre Source. The festival opens on June 15 and runs through June 25th at 177 MacDougal Street, New York, NY 10011.
Directed by Frank Thomas-Grogan, with Nick Desimone as Harvey and Shayna Lawson as Cindy.
It was most recently performed at the Randall Theatre in Oregon as part of an evening of my one acts titled "Love Plays On".