Thought-Provoking Comedies since 2006
After taking a pause during the pandemic, Tongue in Cheek Theater Productions is returning to producing thought-provoking comedies in NYC. Our first work back onstage in 2024 will be a new work called Shut Up Martha.
Shut Up Martha was first workshopped in Washington, DC in July 2023, as part of the Capital Fringe Festival, where it was named a DC Theater Arts Best of Fringe 2023, calling it a "Compelling retelling of the Watergate scandal from the point of view of one of its most colorful characters." Following the DC run, TIC will expand the story of Shut Up Martha from a one-act play to a two-act with a three-week run planned in early summer 2024.
Check back in late 2023 for more information around the NYC premiere of Shut Up Martha, including ticketing and programming information.
Shut Up Martha was first workshopped in Washington, DC in July 2023, as part of the Capital Fringe Festival, where it was named a DC Theater Arts Best of Fringe 2023, calling it a "Compelling retelling of the Watergate scandal from the point of view of one of its most colorful characters." Following the DC run, TIC will expand the story of Shut Up Martha from a one-act play to a two-act with a three-week run planned in early summer 2024.
Check back in late 2023 for more information around the NYC premiere of Shut Up Martha, including ticketing and programming information.
The story of Shut Up Martha
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Shut Up Martha focuses on Martha Mitchell, the outspoken wife of the attorney general John Mitchell under President Nixon.
When the Mitchells came to DC in 1969, Martha became a favorite spokesperson for the Republican Party. She was known to fix herself a cocktail, listen in on her husband's work calls, and call up journalists to dish on what she'd overheard. In June 1972, five men were caught breaking into the Democratic National Headquarters, inside the Watergate complex. While campaigning for Nixon's re-election, Martha saw the news and recognized one of the burglars. She immediately called journalist Helen Thomas and revealed both the connection and that she was being held against her will in a hotel room. Martha's call set off a senate inquiry, the prosecution of many high-ranking Republican officials, including her own husband's imprisonment, and Nixon's eventual resignation. Nixon himself remarked, "I'm convinced if it hadn't been for Martha, there would have been no Watergate." |
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