2025 Planning Underway
Over the course of 2024, we have been in development mode with a few new scripts underway for potential productions in 2025 and beyond:
- A full-length (70 min) script of Shut Up Martha, about the colorful whistleblower of Watergate, Martha Mitchell
- An original solo show Learning Curves, to be submitted to festivals in 2025 -- a dramedy about an invitation to an elementary school reunion and revisiting the lumps and bumps of coming of age
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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