MANNEQUIN takes place at the site of a fur store in South Philly, hopscotching through time from 1965 to the present time of 2020. There’s a longstanding conflict between the owner, Olive, an elderly Jewish woman who is a Holocaust survivor, and Betty, a protester who vehemently opposes the fur trade and its barbarism. Olive takes solace in collecting mannequins for her shop, and they animate to talk to her and one another in private moments. She must negotiate terms with a South Philly mobster to keep her business going through the decades and navigate the rougher edges of the streets, and being a woman alone in order to keep her shop afloat.  In 2019, when the play begins, 13-year-old, Patti, and her mother moving to the neighborhood. Patti feels alone in her new city and gravitates to the shop and to Olive to fulfill some kind of community. To combat her loneliness Patti also engages a teenager online who later turns out to be quite troubled. The mannequins serve as a modern greek chorus, sharing their observations on how they see us humans and one other, looking at the world with depth, humor, and absurdity.