PLAYS by Meredith Bean McMath

Sticks & Stones

This ten-minute, two character play explores childhood sexual abuse. A brother in a Twelve Step for cocaine abuse needs to do his ninth step: make amends. In trying to apologize for sexual exploration in their youth, his sister explains it wasn't his fault but hers - that she let a boy do things to her years before, when she was only five. Her brother begins to question her memories of the event - it might not have been her fault at all...

FIRST PRIZE WINNER in the Washington, D.C. Source Theatre August 2003 Ten-Minute Play Competition (Directed by Charles Upton).

L to R: actress Morgan El-Shafey (performed as Beth), writer Meredith Bean McMath, actor/director Tom Sweitzer (portrayed James), and show's director Charles Upton at the Source Theatre, Washington, D.C. August 8, 2003.

10 minutes; one man; one woman.

Production History: 2003 - Source Theatre Ten-Minute Play Competition, Washington, D.C., Directed by Charles Upton; 2003 - Univ. of North Carolina - Asheville "One Acts," Directed by Nate Juraschek.

Kate Yuhas as Beth, William Repoley as James in the University of North Carolina performance of "Sticks & Stones," December 2003

For performance rights, contact Meredith Bean McMath at meredith@storyroot.com