• Food for Thought — A short play. What does a loving husband do when his wife talks obsessively about her need to lose weight?

• Letters to an Ex — A monologue. A woman gets back to the man who took her virginity twenty years earlier.

• Going Green — A short play. Ben wants a burger for dinner, but all Lucy has is salad fixin’s. Meanwhile, we get a few clues about their marriage.

• A Match Made in Heaven — A short play. What happens to Heaven when a man doesn’t like his girlfriend’s new hairstyle? Maybe something good...

• Cookin’ With Gas — A short play. Wanda thinks she might want to buy a car that uses alternative fuel.

• Joyeaux Anniversaire — A short play. When they are interviewed by a newspaper reporter about their sex lives, college-aged Florence and Millie butt heads.

• A Christmas Kiss — A short play. What happens when two old, platonic friends meet just before the holidays in New York City?

• An Artful Marriage — A short play. 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?

• Girl Before a Mirror — A short play. Pablo Picasso paints a portrait of his mistress, Marie-Therese Walter, in Paris in 1932.

About this Playwright

MARTHA PATTERSON has written more than 80 plays and has been published in four anthologies by the International Centre for Women Playwrights, as well as in several collections from JAC. Her work has been produced Off-Off-Broadway and in Washington, Oregon, Illinois, Michigan, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Ohio, upstate New York and Florida. She has also been produced overseas in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Korea and Australia. Shoestring Radio Theatre in San Francisco produced a half-hour mystery of hers in 2010. Martha 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.