Anniversary
A wife sets an unsettling
dinner for her gagged, bound husband in a nearly wordless piece about revenge.
Short one-act drama. One woman, one man. Performance: May 1992, Third Tuesday
Theater,
- Ideally set to a version of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah."
The lifelong friendship
of two Doors fans is tested when their car abruptly dies at night in the
Southwest American desert. Short one-act comedy-drama. Two women. Performance: May
1998, Stark Raving Theatre,
- Sample
- Jim Morrison. Voice of a generation. Of course, that generation was stoned at the time.... He wrote embarrassing poetry and probably would have benefited from therapy, but would you want to be his therapist? Rumor has it he's still alive and living in sin with Amelia Earhart. Regardless, The Doors made some fine music.
- Discover the austere and haunting beauty of the American Southwest.
Camisole
A painter and a
businesswoman suffering relationship problems create a secret world in a
passage linking their French Quarter apartments. Probably my most romantic play,
but, given the rest of my work, that's not saying much. Never been produced,
possibly because of set demands, more likely because I've never submitted it
anywhere due to a few tricky plot complications. Still, it's long been a
favorite play of some friends and family, likely because it proves I can write
about things other than death, dismemberment, etc. Full length two-act drama.
Two women, two men. Performance: March 1991, Sunday at Seven,
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Through a series of
interlinked monologues, an array of characters draw a picture of life in the
American Southwest. Sections are arranged around earth, air, water, and fire.
Full length one-act drama/performance piece. Five women, five men. Performance:
September 1990, FUSE Gallery, Portland Oregonian, 1990: '...a haunting, insightful script.... The language is expansive and poetic.... Patterson is a writer to watch...like Sam Shepard's early work....' |
- Richard Misrach, one of my favorite contemporary photographers. I highly recommend his wonderful book, Desert Cantos.
- So what the heck is a controlled burn? Sometimes it's known as a prescribed burn.
- And sometimes it doesn't turn out as planned. Note that the date is after I wrote the play.
Cybeleties
An ambitious actress
receives phone calls from the exceedingly fabulous. Short one-act comedy. One
woman, one man. Performance: January 1993, Third Tuesday Theater,
- A novelty piece, I wrote this for my friends, Cybele and Botielus, who host the exceedingly fabulous Chess Show.
- And, as Cybele will remind you, she's also a goddess.
Expatriates (adaptation)
In a cafe, stylish
readings of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, T. S. Eliot,
Ezra Pound, and Djuna Barnes sketch
Lounge Car Night
At the close of World War
II, oddball characters on a train crossing the American Southwest fall for the
charms of a couple of very unique con artists. A mob hit-man, a grieving widow
whose husband may be alive, a female Kerouac, a vampire, and Einstein's Special
Theory of Relativity. How can you go wrong? Half hour one-act comedy-drama. Two
women, three men. Premiered 2005 at the
Object of Destruction
In a
- Lee Miller, a photographer with a fascinating life story.
Shelter
When a fading rock
musician becomes snowbound with his ex-lover in a
Shooting
A hard-luck character
faces an uncertain morning on the border of the
When fiction overtakes
reality, dangerous tensions arise between a film director and a rock musician
on a movie set in
The Spider Wind
A long-estranged daughter
returns home to her mother and her disturbed younger brother as
The Submerged Country
Based on the life of
surrealist painter Yves Tanguy, artist Kay Sage recounts her husband's
progressive mental illness. Half hour one-act drama/performance piece. One
woman. Performance: September 1991, ArtQuake Festival/Winningstad Theatre,
Temptation
In the
Translations
In Khazakistan, a disaffected American tourist attempts to buy opium from an embittered Soviet war veteran. The twist is, they have to rely on a translator with an agenda of her own. One hour one-act drama. One woman, two men.
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