Inspired by Mark Twain’s “The Diaries of Adam and Eve,” nationally-known performers Ingrid Nixon and Jeff Doyle put their spin on the story in the Pacific Northwest debut of “The Lost Diaries of Eve and Adam,” their original work to Sequim in early June.

Performances are 7 p.m. Thursday, June 7, and 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 8, at Olympic Theatre Arts (OTA), 414 N. Sequim Ave.

The pair look to answer to how Adam and Eve, through humor and tenderness, navigated the same challenges many couples face today.

It’s a new perspective on the couple’s experience of suddenly finding themselves in a relationship, raising children and living life, production members say — all without any instruction manual.

“Adam and Eve were the first couple, the first lovers, the first parents, leaving a lot of room for miscommunication and funny misunderstandings,” Doyle says. “We have taken Twain’s idea of diary entries and woven together a wonderfully funny and sometimes touching love story.”

Adds Nixon, “This show is not designed to be a Sunday school lesson on the Book of Genesis … but rather examines the way things could have been between the first man and the first woman.”

Nixon, who grew up in Port Angeles, is an award-winning storyteller who performs for audiences around the world. Michigan-based Doyle is a storyteller/humorist and recording artist.

The two received a grant from the National Storytelling Network to develop the piece, which they co-wrote while living half a continent apart. To stage the show they worked with the renowned storytelling mime, Antonio Rocha, who was a featured teller at the Forest Storytelling Festival in Port Angeles in 2017.

Nixon and Doyle performed the world premiere earlier this year in The Opera House at Howell, Mich. While in the Northwest, they will also perform in Olympia at Traditions Café on June 6; future performances include the National Storytelling Summit in Kansas City, Mo., in July.

Tickets for the June 7 show are $15 for general admission, $13 for OTA members. Tickets for the June 8 show are $17 for general admission, $15 for OTA members. See www.OlympicTheatreArts.org or call 360-683-7326 for more information.