Life presents unexpected challenges to a newlywed bride in Bekah Brunstetter’s gut-puncher of a dramedy Be A Good Little Widow, a particularly fine visiting production at West L.A.’s Odyssey Theatre.

25-year-old Melody (Adrienne Visnic) is doing her best to be a good little wife to her lawyer husband Craig (Sterling Knight) when first we meet the romcom-ready newlyweds in the Connecticut house the young couple now call home.