Mary, Mary: by St. John G Ervine

Mary, Mary, quite contrary goes a rhyme, and that is what the title is taken from. Delightful play about a witty young woman with a fragile beauty that she is unaware of, and a wit she uses to protect herself consequently, resulting in situations where a man might find it hard being in love with her - she is treating every overture as a table tennis ball to be hit back. She is divorced when the play opens, and visiting her ex husband to go over some accounting problems for him for taxes. He still loves her and has given it up as hopeless. And then there is the friend of the husband, a successful and handsome actor, who happens to be around and finds her attractive. Will the couple in love find their way back to their marriage? Will she realise she is beautiful as a woman, and learn to bask in the love that comes her way?