"McMath, an award-winning historian and prize-winning playwright, has garnered a reputation for producing high-quality theater in the area." - ANN KEISMAN, Loudoun Times-Mirror

"Meredith McMath’s adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s play “Arms and the Man” is full of exchanges that make a guy nostalgic for a language alive with wit and humor, with deliberation and suggestion, a language rich enough to express the complicated truth about each of us and thereby make it possible for us to know ourselves." - MARK DEWEY, Blue Ridge Leader


PLAYS and other theatre resources from Meredith Bean McMath
     

Alcott's LITTLE WOMEN

This adaptation successfully sets
the big story on a small stage through
creative use of space.

Premiered: 2004 - Aurora Studio Theatre
See PHOTOS

Loudoun Times Mirror REVIEW

  

ALL FOR THE UNION

Based on the true Civil War story of
three young women who dared to write
a pro-Union newspaper from the heart
of Confederate Virginia.

Information on the independent film
version: Waterford's War

 

ARMS & The HIGHLANDER

A Colonial American adaptation of
Shaw's Arms and the Man set in
Yorktown, Virginia.  More Information.

Premiered: 2006 - Aurora Studio Theatre
See PHOTOS

Purcellville Gazette REVIEW

Blue Ridge Leader REVIEW

 

BILL THE BARD : an Evening of
Shakespearean Entertainment

A presentation of several short scenes,
illuminated by an argumentative speaker
who's just another frustrated actor

Premiered 2000:
Not Just Shakespeare, Inc.
 
   
 

BLIND DATE

A comedy that tweaks our understanding
of prejudice toward the physically
challenged.

Finalist, 2006 Theatre Oxford 10-Minute

Play Competition, Oxford, MS

 

CASE 22

When child protective services is an
oxymoron, who will help the children of
abuse?

 

THE DRINKING GOURD : Songs &
Stories of the Underground Railroad

A collection of songs and stories written to
be produced by 3rd to 6th grade students
and cleverly staged to engage every
student in the action.

Premiered Black History Month, 2004
- Lo. Co. Public Schools

 

FLY THE PIG

So why don't true stories ever make
it to the Big Screen? Based on an all
too true conversation with a real live

Hollywood producer
 
   

Unfinished Manuscript:

The Die is Cast:
The Cast Must Die

 

Unfinished Manuscript:

The Foot

PORCHES: an american musical

Mishler Theatre  Original concept
and music by Tom Sweitzer, Book
by Meredith Bean McMath

Sometimes the person who can
change your life lives right next door

 

STICKS AND STONES

Her brother needed to ask forgiveness.
She'd always blamed herself. For once
once in their life, they may find the truth
doesn't hurt at all.

First Prize Winner - 2003 Source Theatre
10-Minute Play Compeition

  

Set in the days of the early 19th
century American Theatre, a
costumer discovers a member
of the comapny is offing actors
whenever they perform his beloved
Shakespeare badly.  She can't prove
it, and now the young carpenter has
been cast as Romeo. Here's what

she'll do for love...

  A Winchester, Virginia woman
walks out to her garden and
finds a boot - with the owner's
foot still inside. Clearly a man
died when the Union Army
blew up the depot the night
before.  The foot'll have to be
buried, but is it Confederate,
Yankee, or slave?
 

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