The play is adapted from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo's novel Orthodox Clown Straight Man, a midlife crisis story set at Leighton College by William Henry Devereaux Jr. Tell it in the first person. William is not the head of the English department at a badly underfunded college in the Rust Belt, Pennsylvania. In the original work, William Henry Devereaux Jr. Is a person who is reluctant to do anything. Part of his reluctance stems from his own character, he was born an anarchist, and partly from his department, which is more divided than the Balkans. In a week's time, Devereaux will be bruised by an angry colleague, imagining his wife having an affair with the dean of the college, wondering if a curvy part-time teacher tried to seduce him with peach kernels and threatened to execute a goose on local television. In the process, Devereaux will work with his flirtatious father and promise to himself when he is young.
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