How I Wore Out Fifty Pairs of Silk Stockings is a spring-ticklish play about yearning, encounters, and their ineffableness.

Clara, a 30ish Transylvanian journalist relocated in Budapest, sets out to understand her French lover's unapologetic sexual openness. She places two personal ads in the local paper. She meets numerous Hungarian men, mostly misfits. She also encounters mutual prejudice between Hungarians and Transylvanians, whom they consider to be their poorer cousins. All along, she takes advice from Margo, her wise retired ex-communist leader girlfriend.

She explicitly documents her encounters with the help of a charming and dreamy typist, Fado, a few-years her junior, who becomes her inspiring spring muse. Alas, Clara finds that her muse has an obsessively fastidious, gold-digger girlfriend. Stirred, Clara weathers her spring yearning for him while learning that it's all too human to fancy two people at a time. As she grows surer of her charms and becomes more open-minded, her Frenchman becomes all the more loving.

By the end of the dating extravaganza, tired-out Clara discovers that Fado has pined for her all along, wanting to stay her muse forever. Sadly, his ship has sailed and so has she.

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