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MARTHA PATTERSON (1956 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: n/a |
Martha Patterson has written over 50 plays and has been published in four anthologies by the International Centre for Women Playwrights as well as in collections from JAC Publishing. Her work has been produced Off-Off-Broadway and in Washington, Oregon, Michigan, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Ohio, and Florida. She has also been produced overseas in Korea and Australia. Shoestring Radio Theatre in San Francisco produced a half-hour mystery of hers in 2010. She earned her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and an M.A. from Emerson College, both degrees in Theatre. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, the International Centre for Women Playwrights, Screen Actors Guild, and Actors' Equity Association.
Plays by Martha Patterson
Age & Duty | ||
| 1st Produced: | Staged reading at Calderwood Pavilion, Boston Center for the Arts | Feb 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #130525 | |||
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Genre: | 15-Minute Seriocomic | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | A play about friendship. What does young Karla do when an older friend continually offers unwanted advice? | |||||
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Alison - A Monologue for a Teenaged Girl | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133795 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy, 3 minutes | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Alison is a 14-year old girl who is talking to herself into the mirror in her bedroom while putting on mascara. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Artful Marriage, An | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Off Broadway Theatre, Milwaukee, WI | May 2010 | ||||
Company: | The Pink Banana Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #111149 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy, Short Play (10-15 min.) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Jake, a businessman, and his wife live in a high-rise apartment. As they drink cocktails together one night, and listen to their neighbors making love, they engage in monologues to the audience about how dissatisfied they are with their marriage. Their son wants to study art in Egypt, and it seems to both that this might be a good idea. By the end of the play, Jake and his wife are addressing each other. Has each made a good choice in a spouse, after all? | |||||
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Cookin' With Gas | ||
| 1st Produced: | We Mean to Be Green One Act Showcase Theatre, Ft. Myers, FL | Apr 2010 | ||||
Company: | Thespian Prod. | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #111150 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy, Short Play (10-15 min.) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Wanda thinks she might like to buy a car that uses alternative fuel. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Food for Thought | ||
| 1st Produced: | Semi-finalist at Heartland Theatre Company, Central Illinois | Feb 2011 | ||||
Company: | Heartland Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #130473 | |||
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Genre: | 10-Minute Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | What does a loving husband do when his wife continually talks about her need to lose weight? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Girl Before a Mirror | ||
| 1st Produced: | Short + Sweet Festival, Sydney, Australia | Feb 2011 | ||||
Company: | Short + Sweet Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #111151 | |||
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Genre: | 15-Minute Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Pablo Picasso paints a portrait of his mistress, Marie-Therese Walter, in Paris in 1932. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Going Green | ||
| 1st Produced: | Changing Scene Theatre Northwest, Bremerton, WA | Sep 2010 | ||||
Company: | Changing Scene Theatre Northwest | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #130474 | |||
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Genre: | 10-Minute Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Ben wants a burger for dinner, but all Lucy has is salad fixin's. Meanwhile, we get a few clues about their marriage. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Going Overboard | ||
| 1st Produced: | Staged reading at Swan Day, Boston | May 2011 | ||||
Company: | SWAN Day (Support Women Artists Now) | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #130475 | |||
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Genre: | 10-Minute Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Depressed Miranda and easygoing Arthur meet by accident on the Staten Island Ferry. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hamlet's Revenge | ||
| 1st Produced: | Roofers, Itaewon, Korea (to an English-speaking audience) | Oct 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #130526 | |||
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Genre: | 3-Minute Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Hamlet's father's Ghost wants Hamlet to avenge his murder, but Hamlet is young and foolish and says his father never paid much attention to him, anyway. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Harry's Monologue from Talking to Strangers | ||
| 1st Produced: | Roofers Theatre, Itaewon, Seoul, Korea (in English for an English-speaking audience) | Dec 2009 | ||||
Company: | Seoul Players "Night of 1000 Plays" | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #111152 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | On a bench in Central Park, Harry recalls losing his virginity. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Isadora and the Apocalypse of 2010 | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #111153 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy, Short Play (15 min.) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | At first, Isadora is not sure she wants to become a vampire. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Jack & His Mother's Ghost | ||
| 1st Produced: | Finalist at Vittum Awards, USA | 2011 | ||||
Company: | Vittum Awards | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #130476 | |||
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Genre: | 10-Minute Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Jack's Mother's Ghost appears to him one night while he is trying to go to sleep and gives him advice on his love life. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Jean's Monologue from What Remains | ||
| 1st Produced: | Roofers Theatre, Itaewon, Seoul, Korea (in English for an English-speaking audience) | Oct 2009 | ||||
Company: | Seoul Players "Night of 1000 Plays" | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #111154 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | At their vacation home in coastal Maine, Jean reminds her daughter that marriage is not all it may seem to be. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Kiss from Rome, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Finalist at Cluj Theatre, Romania | 2011 | ||||
Company: | Cluj Theatre, Romania | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #130477 | |||
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Genre: | 10-Minute Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | What happens when an Agnostic American woman has a date with a very religious man from Rome? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Late Night With Mu Shu Pork | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133792 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy, 10 minutes | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Over Chinese food, Eleni wonders if Willow is gay. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lies | ||
| 1st Produced: | Image Theatre, The Old Court Pub, Lowell, Mass | 19 Nov 2011 | ||||
Company: | Image Theatre's "Naughty Readings" | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133838 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy, 10 minutes | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Lourdes and Simon, a young married couple, are lying to each other. But how much - and why? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Life On Mars | ||
| 1st Produced: | Changing Scene Theatre Northwest, Bremerton, WA | Summer 2011 | ||||
Company: | Changing Scene Theatre Northwest, Bremerton, WA and Seoul Players, Korea (to an English-speaking audience) | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #130478 | |||
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Genre: | 10-Minute Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Angie, a bored Humanoid, meets a nervous extraterrestrial waiter in a bar on Mars. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Little Doll, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Spare Change Theatre, "In A New York Minute Festival," NYC | Apr 2011 | ||||
Company: | Spare Change Theatre, NYC | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #130479 | |||
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Genre: | 60-second Horror | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A little girl thinks her doll is messing with her, but her father doesn't believe her. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Marcie - A Monologue About Being Homeless | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133793 | |||
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Genre: | Drama, 7-10 minutes | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A woman, 40, is recounting a bad time in her life to a co-worker. She is sitting at a table, making a flower out of tissue paper with scissors and glue. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Marnie's Monologue from The Big Hat | ||
| 1st Produced: | Roofers Theatre, Itaewon, Seoul, Korea (in English for an English-speaking audience) | Oct 2009 | ||||
Company: | Seoul Players "Night of 1000 Plays" | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #111155 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Marnie, a young woman from the South, has one ambition - to be a slut. Well, not exactly. She really wants to be like her sexy long-lost aunt. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Monologue of Mrs. Evans from Family Affairs | ||
| 1st Produced: | Int'l. Centre for Women Playwrights | 2009 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #111156 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Mrs. Evans tries to rescue her daughter Susan from a debilitating depression by drilling a hole through Susan's door, so she can see her daughter who has locked herself in her room. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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New York's Finest | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Creative Place Theatre, NY, NY | 1998 | ||||
Company: | Love Creek Prods. | |||||
| 1st Published: | Int'l. Centre for Women Playwrights (Fiona's monologue only), 2009 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-557-09422-6 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #111157 | |||
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Genre: | comedy drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | NEW YORK'S FINEST is a one act comedy, taking place in New York City, about a young secretary who is living alone in Alphabet City, whose mother comes down from Boston frequently to visit her. The mother listens to all of Fiona's complaints about her life on the Lower East Side, and tries to offer comfort, but it is the appearance of Steven, a police officer investigating a murder in Fiona's building, that really excites sparks in Fiona. After they date for a while, and Steven solves the murder, and after a frustrating encounter Fiona has with her ex-boyfriend Derek, Fiona accepts Steven's proposal to get married, and Fiona, her mother, and Steven go out for a drink to celebrate the happy occasion. | |||||
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Simone - A Monologue | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133794 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy, 3-5 minutes | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | SIMONE, an actress aged 50s-early 60s, hears from her ex after 20 years of silence. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Talking to Strangers | ||
| 1st Produced: | Clurman Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036 >>> | 1997 | ||||
Company: | Love Creek Prods. | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #111158 | |||
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Genre: | comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | TALKING TO STRANGERS is a one act comedy set in New York City, about a young man and woman who meet by accident on a bench in Central Park. Anne's boyfriend has just knocked her into a fountain and she enters dripping wet. At first put off by her openness, Harry, a friendly but quiet graphic artist, seeks to end the conversation quickly, but then finds Anne more interesting as she reveals her insecurities to him, and they develop a friendship through a long conversation about their jobs, love lives, dates with celebrity look-alikes, and loss of virginity. At the end of the play Harry invites Anne to spend the night on a sofa in his apartment, just to get away from her boyfriend - but will Anne accept his invitation? | |||||
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Veronique | ||
| 1st Produced: | Shoestring Radio Theatre, San Francisco, CA | May 2010 | ||||
Company: | Shoestring Radio Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #111159 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Murder Mystery Radio Play, Half-Hour Length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling possible | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | When Veronique, an actress, witnesses her lover Anton's murder, she becomes a suspect herself and quickly becomes involved in the world of pimping and prostitution. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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What Remains | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Creative Place Theatre, NY, NY | 1998 | ||||
Company: | Love Creek Prods. | |||||
| 1st Published: | Int'l. Centre for Women Playwrights (Jean's monologue only), 2009 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-557-09310-6 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #111160 | |||
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Genre: | drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | At their summer cottage in coastal Maine, Jean tells her grown daughter Madeleine about an affair Madeleine's proud, deceased, Irish-born father had, as Jean agonizes over the affair and the business of selling their vacation home. Through flashbacks, we see the disastrous result the affair had on Jean and Emlyn's marriage. Meanwhile, the daughter, Madeleine, is trying to resolve her relationship with a young man she may marry. Will Jean and her daughter reconcile themselves to their sad past, and keep their beloved summer home? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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