Working on a New Play

Patricia MiltonBlog

A feminist with three PhD’s puts herself, through a series of personal choices, in the role of “the other woman.” How do tropes about infidelity fare when examined with a feminist lens? What is the binary: madonna (wife) and whore (other woman)? Or can we dispense with the binary altogether? If both women have made choices based on the limited …

Germinating Ideas

Patricia MiltonBlog

The major project I’m working on right now is called “Foreign and Domestic.” The play juxtaposes a story of domestic violence with a story of US secret intervention and violence in Somalia. “F & D” invites the audience to notice the similarities, and there are many: the most prominent being the presence of secrecy attached to violent dysfunction, and the …