PTMC PLAYWRITING

Playwright, Adapter, Actor, Director, Innovator

Welcome to my website. As a professional Playwright, I aim to create a better understanding of the world as I see it and our place in it — a mission which has cast me in many different roles: actor, director, teacher, collaborator, designer, and creative innovator. Sample my plays from the smorgasbord of offerings and enter into a world of imagination.

PANDER...ING

(C)  2020 by ptmc

Sample pages available at NPX

https://newplayexchange.org/plays/1052730/pandering

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 & even

Anne Hathaway join the fray. And what's that underlying thrum regarding authorship?

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PANDER...ing Vimeo & PINTEREST & NPX

https://www.pinterest.com/ptmcptmc9442/pandering/

https://newplayexchange.org/plays/1052730/pandering

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/504533859

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SHREWD!

SHREWD!

Shaming of the Shrewd  © 2020 by Patrick Thomas McCarthy ptmc

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Cast 4 Women 7 Men

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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 Matcha

Hortensio – son to Bumsquat, Vincentio’s mate

Vincentio – merchant class orphan, Hortensio’s mate

Lucentio – son to Matcha, Bianca’s mate

Biondello – servant to Petruchio, Servantina’s mate

Bumsquat – father to Hortensio, the cheese stands alone

Matchata – mother to Lucentio, match to Baptista

Servantina – servant to Baptista family, mate to Biondello

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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 most men “are so simple”. In Kate’s wisdom, all end up with a mate except for Bumsquat, the instigator, whose cheese stands alone.

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REEKING OF INDISCRETION:

MADAME X'S ALLERTON

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(C) 2019  by PTMC

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, both in high society and everyday life, and his intimate relationship with John Wyatt Gregg Allerton (1899-1986), his longtime companion, adopted-as-an- adult son, are best imagined by inventing what their correspondence might have been. Over the course of two centuries, what words might have passed between these three brightly shining stars that shaped 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 for two men and one woman.

MX'sA had its first flirtation with the public on Wednesday November 28, 2018 at the Vermont Studio Center's RedMill DiningRoom presentation series with a reading of excerpts from its opening letters and feature stories. Mary Clark played Madame X/Caroline Kirkland and ptmc played Robert Allerton. Another reading at VSC, of opera box scene & closing took place on Dec. 21.  Complete readings of finished script took place at Waukesha Civic Theatre [WIS] with Sharon Sohner as Madame X, Tom Briggs as John Gregg, and ptmc as Robert Allerton on Dec. 26, and Dec 30 at EastPoint Commons, Milwaukee with Donna Lobacz as Madame X, Don Lobacz as John Gregg & ptmc as Robert Allerton, and Mae Haskins, Steppenwolf, as adjudicator. Development readings in March & September 2019 featured Terry Caza as Robert Allerton; Mary O'Brady as Caroline Kirkland / Madame X; & Drew Bolander as John Gregg.

Fringe NYC BYOV saw Madame X come to the CHAIN THEATRE Studio space, NYC, from Oct 7-21, 2019 for 10 performances with Rik Walter as Robert Allerton; Anna Cody as Caroline Kirkland / Madame X; & Jordan Tierney as John Gregg.

REEKING of INDISCRETION: Madame X's Allerton features the future "partnership" of John Gregg, drafted at 18, returning from World War I to enroll as a student of architecture at the University of Illinois. The orphan John G. is paired with the childless Robert at a fraternity Father-Son luncheon in 1922, and a lifetime relationship begins. Madame X who claimed to be "reeking with indiscretion" for her column in the Chicago Tribune, becomes part of a "triangulate" with what she does or does not write about Robert Allerton's life and his relationship with John G. 

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* REEKING of INDISCRETION: Madame X's Allerton is a direct result of a Vermont Studio Center Writing Residency and Fellowship

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Companion piece to VARIED LIVES

https://variedlives.weebly.com/

TEMPEST

 (C) 2018 by ptmc

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PERO: (Reading from The Tempest)

I am vex'd;
Bear with my weakness; my, brain is troubled:
Be not disturb'd with my infirmity:
If you be pleased, a turn or two I'll walk,
To still my beating mind.

MIRANDA: I’ll walk with you to sooth your beating mind.

PERO: As your prisoner?

MIRANDA: As your friendly captor.

PERO: Ever so friendly, the queen of if.

MIRANDA: If you will my lord.

PERO: I will my lady, if you will. Lead on.

MIRANDA: Into our brave new world.

[They walk arm in arm toward the audience as the lights fade]

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"O Brave New World" that has the other in't... TEMPEST by ptmc 

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https://newplayexchange.org/plays/169334/tempest

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