This short and smart noir play by Martha Patterson teases with the detective genre and then turns it on its head - as femme fatale Randy is A WOMAN IN NEED. Detective Humphrey appraises her morally and physically as if she were a dime-store mannequin and not the woman picking his pocket and then some. I guess his attempt to reform her with top-shelf whiskey is short-lived. Funny! A WOMAN IN NEED offers a plausible new twist to the Chandler universe, and I love it that the perplexed Waiter gets the final words. Here's looking at you, playwright.
This short and smart noir play by Martha Patterson teases with the detective genre and then turns it on its head - as femme fatale Randy is A WOMAN IN NEED. Detective Humphrey appraises her morally and physically as if she were a dime-store mannequin and not the woman picking his pocket and then some. I guess his attempt to reform her with top-shelf whiskey is short-lived. Funny! A WOMAN IN NEED offers a plausible new twist to the Chandler universe, and I love it that the perplexed Waiter gets the final words. Here's looking at you, playwright.