MASQUE 12thNTD BOSTON APOLLO Varied Lives TEMPEST sExtOrtiOn Madame X's Allerton etc...
MASQUE
a musical revel of Unexpected Consequence (C) 2023
Inspired by Edgar Allen Poe's
MASQUE of the RED DEATH
Book & Lyrics by Patrick Thomas McCarthy ... ptmc
Music & Orchestrations by Jerico DeAngelo
FIRST VIEW:
Sunday January 26th, 2025 6pm
Music stand read/sing in NYC location TBA
Casting October 2024
CAST = 5W 6M
BOSTON APOLLO
You’re invited to John Singer Sargent’s Pope Building Studio in Boston, June 1921, to meet
the artist, his patroness and Boston's Apollo
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Actors Shakespeare Co. (ASC)
Hosted Live ZOOM Webinar/Reading
PANDER...ing by ptmc
Sunday January 24th, 2021
VIMEO Promo for PANDERing...
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What if Shakespeare felt maker's remorse in presenting HENRY VI's Joan of Arc, & TROILUS & CRESSIDA's Pandarus, & enlists the patronage of Queen Elizabeth to assist him in giving both Pandarus & Joan d’Arc makeovers? Perhaps change history in the process? Achilles, Patroclus, Mistress Overdone, Anne Hathaway, Mrs. Aphra Behn, Edward DeVere and even a Gallant Stool join in the fray.
And what’s that underlying thrum regarding authorship?
PANDER..ing
PANDER..ing
What if Will Shakespeare had "maker's remorse" and decided to call in TROILUS & CRESSIDA's Pandarus, and HENRY 6th's Joan la Pucelle for makeovers?
Achilles, Patroclus, Mistress Overdone, Queen Elizabeth, Mrs. Aphra Behn, Edward de Vere, Anne Hathaway & even a Gallant Stool jump into the fray to give Joan d'Arc her due.
​Can lit history's non-winners, even those burned at the stake, be remade?
And what's that constant thrum regarding authorship?
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​​SHREWD!
Shaming of the Shrewd © 2023 by Patrick Thomas McCarthy ptmc
Cast 4 Women 7 Men
Kate – oldest daughter to Baptista, match to Petruchio
Petruchio – fortune hunter, match to Kate
Bianca – youngest daughter to Baptista, match to Lucentio
Baptista – father to Kate & Bianca, match to Matchata
Hortensio – son to Bumsquat, Vincentio’s mate
Vincentio – Hortensio’s mate
Lucentio – son to Matchata, Bianca’s mate
Biondello – servant to Baptista family, Servantina’s mate
Bumsquat – father to Hortensio
Matchata – matchmaker, Lucentio's mother, match to Baptista
Servantina – servant to Baptista family, mate to Biondello
SYNOPSIS Kate Baptista runs her father’s household with a firm hand since her mother’s death. When matchmakers and fortune seekers pursue her sister Bianca for her dowry, Kate puts forth the oldest daughter must be first married dictum. She then interviews potential suitors for her own hand and Bianca’s, suffering no fools in the bargain. Choosing Petruchio as the most apt, least offensive choice after careful analysis, she proceeds to make him into an appropriate match. She is ashamed that mankind is " so simple”.
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COMING SOON ...
​ TheaterMakers Studio Nominees/Winners for TMS Awards Are...
BEST PLAY (TMS READING SERIES)
Pride River Crossing by ptmc
BEST DIRECTION (TMS READING SERIES)Katherine Hammond - Pride River Crossing
BEST PLAYER (TMS READING SERIES)
BEST PLAY (TMS READING SERIES)
Pride River Crossing by ptmc
Katherine Hammond - Pride River Crossing
BEST PLAYER (TMS READING SERIES)
Brandy Clark - Pride River Crossing
Directed by Katherine Hammond via Warehouse of Theatre, Norfolk, VA
CAST
DARI CALDWELL BRANDY CLARK
KRYSTAL GONZALEZ LARRY LEWIS
LEE SMITH TIM SUDDUTH
Produced by Special Arrangement with SMITH SCRIPTS
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Madame X's Allerton
ZOOMed...
Sunday May 24th, 2020 on FaceBook LIVE
Hope you joined us for this experiment in
ZOOMing new work
It's an epistolary intrigue of historical fact, fiction & LGBTQ issues ...
For a taste of our ZOOM event click below...
More on REEKING of INDISCRETION .... click
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LEASING now available at....
Reeking of Indiscretion:
Madame X's Allerton ... The Chicago Tribune’s Madame X, society doyenne Caroline Kirkland (1865-1930) declared Robert Allerton (1873–1964) Chicago’s most eligible bachelor in 1906. His personal relationship with Caroline Kirkland, and his intimate relationship with John Wyatt Gregg Allerton (1899-1986), his longtime companion, and adopted-as-an-adult son, are best imagined by inventing what their correspondence might have been. Bridging two centuries, what words might have passed between these three brightly shining stars that helped shape the course of art, landscape architecture, the future of celebrity journalism and LGBTQ issues that were only imagined in the early 20th century. An epistolary intrigue of historical truth and fiction and LGTBQ issues
Watch Madame X on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOPC6CHH7vQ&list=UUYzIEt9PM_ZWZ63Pow4xo1A
GoFundMe & Madame X
GoFundMe & Madame X
Reeking of Indiscretion:
Madame X's Allerton
(C) 2019 by Patrick Thomas McCarthy ptmc
A STAGED READING
One Night Only
Tuesday July 16th at 8:30pm
ALL OUT ARTS Fresh Fruit Festival
@ The Wild Project 195 East 3rd St & Ave B
with
Ms. Anna Cody as Caroline Kirkland / Madame X
Mr. Jordan Tierney as John Wyatt Gregg
Mr. Patrick Thomas McCarthy as Robert Henry Allerton
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Sat July 13th , 2019 @7pm
@ Grounded Goodwife, Woodbury, CT
with
Sheri Bresson as Madame X
Miles Everett as Robert Allerton
Sam Bass as John Gregg
An epistolary intrigue of historical fact, fiction &
LGBTQ issues
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Reeking Of Indiscretion:
Madame X's Allerton
Additional Readings
Sunday December 30 @East Point Commons, Milwaukee
Thursday December 27 @WaukeshaCivicTheatre, Waukesha
see events page for details & photos
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Wednesday November 28 @8pm & Monday December 10 @8pm
reading excerpts of
#MadameXsAllerton by ptmc
#VermontStudioCenter
presentation series
from
#ptmcplaywriting.com
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Aaron's Revengers Tragedy
...A Feast of Blood
Mashing up Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy and the Victorian Penny Dreadful, STRING of PEARLS a.k.a. Sweeney Todd, to provide enough vengeance, mayhem and blood to fill a banquet hall of horror. Aaron becomes the central character in this barbaric tripleheader, gaining his freedom, his vengeance and his child’s legacy on the bloody way. Coming soon from ptmcplaywriting.com
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TEMPEST
Music Stand Reading
Sun September 23, 2018
6:30pm
Manhattan Plaza
Ellington Room
Many Thank Yous to
David Palmer Brown [The LEARS, 12th NIGHTed, Varied Lives] as Pero
Drew Bolander [The LEARS, CUSTODY, Varied Lives] as Nando
Patrick Harvey [Smith St Stage] as Stefano
Amy Helms [ FSU - Asolo Conservatory] as Miranda
Ashley Marinaccio [NYU Tisch] as Ariel
Kyle Minshew [ 12th Nighted, Demitri - Midnight's Dream] as Cal ... Caliban
Characters - 4 Men 2 Women
Pero – ​father to three children, survivalist, magician [50s]
Miranda – daughter to Pero [20s/30s]
Cal – son to Pero [20s/30s]
Ariel – daughter to Pero [20s]
Nando – handsome stranger in a strange land [20s/30s]
Stefano – companion, sex-worker [20s /30s]
SETTING
A post-apocalypse survivalist enclave
SYNOPSIS
In a post-apocalyptic world, a survivalist father, Pero, captures two strangers he will groom to give as gifts to two of his three children, his pups, Miranda, Ariel & Cal. Will the addition of the "other" civilize his children or compound their savagery? Many "others" have come & gone, will these be the ones to stay...
"O, Brave New World" that has the other in't...
TEMPEST ... is also now submitted to
Acadiana Repertory Theatre, ART, Lafayette, LA
Barrington Stage, MA
College of Charleston, Todd McNurney Playwriting Contest
Death & Pretzels, Chicago, IL
Greater Boston Stage, MA
HRC SHOWCASE, Hudson, NY
Mixed Blood Theatre, Mpls, MN
many thru NPX [New Play Exchange] tagging
https://newplayexchange.org/plays/169334/tempest
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sExtOrtiOn 7 Year Anniversary - ALL OUT ARTS Fresh Fruit Festival July 2013
ALL OUT ARTS Awards: Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting
​Outstanding Ensemble Performance
https://newplayexchange.org/plays/48357/sextortion
https://www.pinterest.com/ptmcptmc9442/sextortion/
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sExtOrtiOn Sexting Sequence 2
Officially entered
Shakespeare's New Contemporaries Initiative
American Shakespeare Center
Staunton, VA
June 12, 2018
Midnight's Dream
First Complete Read Cast List Sunday May 6th 2018
Mick Bleyer = Congressman O'Baron
Anna Cody = Congresswoman Blackbottom, Titania Whipmaster
Mary O'Brady = Mr. Phineas Puck
Nick Bombicino= Colonel Egeus Edge
Mary Lauren = Miss Helena Jane Hathaway
Alana Rader = Hermia Edge, the Edger, the Colonel's daughter
Kyle Minshew = Demitri Demigoggins - a Russian operative with Book of Face specialization, speaks broken Russian inflected English
Dan Tracy = Sandy Lysander Lackluster - not the sharpest knife in the drawer, a Congressional Staffer
Anne Pasquale = Mz. Bette Bottom, Congressional Staffer, Pyramus
Keith Herron = Mr. Quin Quince, Congressional Staffer, Wall
Tepper Saffren = Mr. Frankie Flute, Congressional Staffer, Thisby
Kimmie Braunthal = Ms. Snug Robin Starvling - Congressional Staffer, the Lion in Pyramus & Thisby
Midnight's Dream
Midnight's Dream
(C) 2018 by ptmc
from ptmcplaywriting.com
https://patrickmcc2449.wixsite.com/ptmcplaywriting/midnight-s-dream
7 Men & 5 Women colorful characters include...
Congressman Theeseus O'Baron
Congresswoman Hippolyta Blackbottom and Titania Whipmaster
Colonel Edgeus Edge
Mr. Phineas Puck - The Congressman's Chief of Staff
Demitri-us Demigoggins - a Russian operative with Book of Face Specialization
Sandy Lysander Lackluster - Congressional Staff Member
Hermia Edge / The Edger - Colonel Edge's daughter
Helena Jane Hathaway - the Congressman's Secretary
Mz. Bette Bottom - Congressional Staffer, Pyramus
Quin Quince - Congressional Staffer, Wall
Francis "Frankie" Flute - Congressional Staffer, Thisby
Ms. Snug Robin Starveling - Congressional Staffer, Lion
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SLIPPERY now officially submitted to Shakespeare's New Contemporaries Playwriting Project at American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia. The 2 winners each year of the competition (10 years in all, in total 20 companion pieces will be selected) will play in rep with their Shakespeare companion.
If SLIPPERY is chosen it would play in rep with The WINTER's TALE April/June 2019 at ASC. The first 4 plays seeking "New Contemporaries" companion pieces are The COMEDY of ERRORS, HENRY IV Part 1, The MERRY WIVES of WINDSOR and The WINTER's TALE. The 4 plays for the 2019-2020 cycle are CYMBELINE, OTHELLO, MIDSUMMER NIGHT's DREAM and HENRY IV Part 2.
Let the playwriting begin...or continue....
https://newplayexchange.org/plays/50363/slippery-wintry-tale
SLIPPERY - first reading with Will Copeland, Amanda DuPuy, Jens Martin Krummel, Austin Marolla and Patrick Ball at BGSQD, LGBTQ Center, NYC
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CUSTODY Reviews
CUSTODY Review TheaterScene by Joel Benjamin July 2017