In a series of scenes which span the school year, Bill Groves, an assistant professor of English, is visited in his office by Paul Morris, a quirky undergraduate in Groves� honors seminar on comedy. Paul has an off-the-wall attitude that first startles, then amuses, and ultimately impresses the young professor, while Paul's opinions and behavior are gradually influenced by Groves� personal qualities and intellect. The play conveys the academic “treadmill,� amid which (or despite which) learning and growth can nevertheless be nurtured.
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