Mary Beth Brooker

Playwright & performer.
MFA Smith College.

Playwright & performer.
MFA Smith College.

Scripts

Life Sentence

by Mary Beth Brooker

Synopsis

Winnie and Ham have artfully denied an elephant in the room for thirty years. It’s Winnie’s 70th birthday and while she contemplates graceful aging, Ham is cooking her goose. Enter Martha, former self-harmer, and Timothy, lawyer on the spectrum, whose parlor game of virtual reality exposes a marital lie. This and Winnie’s demented mother further reveal deceptions and distortions of the facts -- facts that in the...

Winnie and Ham have artfully denied an elephant in the room for thirty years. It’s Winnie’s 70th birthday and while she contemplates graceful aging, Ham is cooking her goose. Enter Martha, former self-harmer, and Timothy, lawyer on the spectrum, whose parlor game of virtual reality exposes a marital lie. This and Winnie’s demented mother further reveal deceptions and distortions of the facts -- facts that in the end are fitted to intimate truths, and to abiding love.

Fortune, This is Your House

by Mary Beth Brooker

Synopsis

Holly and Hirsch want to do the right thing. Their environmental activism and social conscience get a bruising when a bathroom renovation in their historic house goes very wrong. As they grapple with their social values and personal desires, a Chekhov early short story, "Fortune" comes to life. Set under the night skies of Massachusetts in the 21st century, and on the 19th century Russian Steppe.

Holly and Hirsch want to do the right thing. Their environmental activism and social conscience get a bruising when a bathroom renovation in their historic house goes very wrong. As they grapple with their social values and personal desires, a Chekhov early short story, "Fortune" comes to life. Set under the night skies of Massachusetts in the 21st century, and on the 19th century Russian Steppe.