GUINNESS OR BUD, New Short Play

SYNOPSIS:  Serio-comedy.  Two men, strangers, argue in a bar about beer and impending fatherhood.

New interview

Here's a just-published interview with me, plus a summary of some of my work, on the "Unknown Playwrights" blog written and edited by Bryan Stubbles:

unknownplaywrights.wordpress.com/2018/11/30/martha-patterson/

2 new productions this fall - THE LONELY MONSTER and HAMLET'S REVENGE

Two new productions in the fall of 2018:

Short monologue THE LONELY MONSTER (comic piece about the monster known as Frankenstein) to be produced at the end of October by the Samuel French Green Room reading series, Hollywood, California;

Short parody HAMLET'S REVENGE (based on the opening scene with Hamlet's father's Ghost) to be produced Dec. 7th, 8th, & 9th by the Laughing Pig Theatre, Mesa, Arizona.

New full-length serio-comedy, WITH EYES CLOSED

SYNOPSIS: Full-length one-act. Jane is a political person and also a bit of a crank. What happens to her relationship with the math-loving cab driver she marries?  Through the course of a year, we follow the fraught relationship of two Millennials.

A STEADY DRIP, A New Work of Flash Fiction

Despite a possible new boyfriend and treatment for her auto-immune disorder, everything seems to go wrong for an older woman.

New Short Comedy - ORPH & EURI IN HELL

SYNOPSIS:  A brief comic play.  Based on the classic myth of Orpheus and Euridice, the two protagonists find themselves unable to change their fate, despite encouragement from God.

LEADING LADY - A new monologue

Written for an opportunity for "Me Too" plays, a theme that has gotten lots of press...

A short monologue set in the present.  A young actress recalls being taken advantage of by her leading man in a play when she was in college.