
Sick
Erik Patterson(Author)
Camden High Street Books (Publisher)
Published on 1. April 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-7379853-5-8 (ISBN)
Description
David needs to get laid, Gary could use a drink, and Tim would like you to take your top off. Carla craves cocaine, Jeannie's got God, and Pamela keeps digging herself deeper into the funny and frightening world of hypochondria. But when one of their own gets sick for real, they're all going to have to face their greatest fears and grow up.
NOMINEE, LA Weekly Award, Outstanding Playwriting
Play Details
Sick is a 90-minute play with no intermission.
Cast: 3 female, 3 male, 1 child
Genre: comedic drama
Keywords: hypochondria, mothers, leukemia, sex
Character Breakdown
PAMELA, a twenty-eight-year-old woman.
DAVID, her husband.
MICHAEL, their ten-year-old son.
BROWN, his doctor. Handsome, charming.
GARY, Pamela's brother.
CARLA, his wife.
JEANNIE, an addict, a sales clerk.
More details
Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
198 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7379853-5-8 (9781737985358)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Erik Patterson recently won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for One of the Nice Ones, which had its world premiere at The Echo Theater Company in 2016. His plays have been produced or developed by Playwrights' Arena, the Los Angeles Theatre Center, Theatre of NOTE, Evidence Room, The Actors' Gang, the Echo Theater Company, the Lark Play Development Center, Moving Arts, Black Dahlia, Naked Angels, the Mark Taper Forum, and New Group. Nominations include the Ovation Award, the Stage Raw Award, the LA Weekly Award, and the GLAAD Media Award. His writing for TV has been recognized with the Humanitas Prize and the Writer's Guild Award, as well as two Emmy nominations. Film and TV credits include R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour, Another Cinderella Story, and Deep Blue Sea 2. His play Handjob recently ran to sold-out houses at Echo Theater Company in Atwater Village. Erik is a graduate of Occidental College and the British American Drama Academy.