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“A stunningly intelligent and politically provocative dramedy . . . Milton’s tightly-crafted play is a tense family drama with overtones of government abuse as well as family violence. . . Enemies: Foreign and Domestic inaugurates the 25th season of world premieres from Central Works with a bold new piece of theatre guaranteed to challenge any audience’s comfort zone.” – George Heymont, …
We’re in the final throes of rehearsal for Enemies: Foreign and Domestic at Central Works in Berkeley, CA. So much gratitude for the amazing creative team, including Director Gary Graves, and our outstanding cast and crew. I can’t wait for opening! Here’s my program note: “The philosopher John Stuart Mill, arguing in 1869 against The Subjection of Women, wrote that …
2015 promises to be a spectacular year. Two world premieres: “Enemies: Foreign and Domestic” at Central Works and “Moments of Truth” at 3Girls Theatre. I’m excited. See you on the flip side!
A feminist with three PhD’s puts herself, through a series of personal choices, in the role of “the other woman.” How do tropes about infidelity fare when examined with a feminist lens? What is the binary: madonna (wife) and whore (other woman)? Or can we dispense with the binary altogether? If both women have made choices based on the limited …
Coming up soon: a staged reading at City Lights Theatre in San Jose of my short play, “Stonehenge.” 8 pm Tuesday, April 8, 2014. The play will be directed by the talented Jacquelyn Montellato, featuring Blythe Murphy, Drew Jones, and Kristen Carder. When a relationship lies in ruins, is that a good thing? Emma, Jane and Avery aim to find …
The major project I’m working on right now is called “Foreign and Domestic.” The play juxtaposes a story of domestic violence with a story of US secret intervention and violence in Somalia. “F & D” invites the audience to notice the similarities, and there are many: the most prominent being the presence of secrecy attached to violent dysfunction, and the …
After Frank — directed by Laylah Muran and featuring Kate Jones and Karen Offereins — is part of a very entertaining and thought-provoking line-up of new short plays in Sheherezade 13, co-produced by Wily West Productions and Playwrights Center of San Francisco. It runs through the end of April at the Exit Theatre in San Francisco. Read the TheatreStorm article …
The concert reading of “Moments of Truth” under the auspices of 3Girls Theatre was gratifying and educational. We attracted an intelligent, generous audience which nearly packed Tides Playhouse in San Francisco.The after-show talkback was extremely helpful, and we’re strategizing our rewrites for another reading April 20 at the Central Works Writers Workshop, where the work is being developed. See the …
I’m participating in Wily West’s “The Showdown,” an evening of short plays with a very short turnaround. Eight playwrights were given topics to write about, and just six days to write a short play. My play, “A Whore’s Life, ” is competing with a play on the same topic by the very funny Kirk Shimano. Wily West is a terrific …
I am helping to organize an evening of short plays and monologues on the subject of women’s bodily autonomy, to take place in October 2012 in San Francisco. We plan to find an organization to sponsor, such as Planned Parenthood, but a prime motivator is to raise awareness. There have been many political moves to roll back progress in this …