Backdoor kicks off the 2005 season with our entry to the American Association of Community Theatre’s one-act play festival. The place is a walk-up apartment on Manhattan’s West Side where we meet Frankie (a waitress) and Johnny (a short-order cook). As the play begins, it is the morning after what Frankie considered a "one-night-stand" and Frankie is hopeful that Johnny will now leave so she can return to her usual routine of watching TV and eating ice cream. But Johnny, a compulsive talker (and romantic), has other ideas. He is convinced that he loves Frankie, a notion that she, at first, considers to be ridiculous. She has had more disappointments than delights in life, and he is the veteran of one broken marriage already. And neither of them is in the bloom of youth. Yet out of their sometimes touching, sometimes hilarious interplay the promise of a relationship does begin to emerge and, as the lights dim, the two are holding hands before the glowing television screen.

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