Plays Written by Sarah Saltwick
EGRESS
THE PLEASURE TRIALS
EUROPA
A PERFECT ROBOT
TENDER ROUGH ROUGH TENDER
SCARLET LETTER
THE CALDERA
Synopses:
Egress (2W, 1M; co-written with Melissa Crespo) – Picture this: You’re an architecture professor specializing in modes of egress. You try to teach your students to care about safe passage through spaces and they write about doors and windows. They write about transparent open spaces versus closed systems with no entrances or exits. At home, at night, you startle awake wondering what had just been in the room with you. You know it was something big and cold and damp and it just walked in like it owned the place. What do you expect to come find you? How do you get away?
The Pleasure Trials (3W) – When Rachel and Callie start clinical trials on their new female libido enhancement drug, willing participants come out of the woodwork looking for an internal revolution. Quickly after the first dose, the effectiveness of the medicine is undeniable, but the overwhelming pressure for its success may corrupt the experiment and everyone involved. The Pleasure Trials is an insightful and entertaining examination of women, sexual desire, and the burden of meeting expectations
Europa (3W,1M) – On a quiet day, in a neighborhood park, Leslie and Alma met for the first time. As their children play, the women discover they know the same man. Leslie listens. Alma tries to leave but Leslie’s the best listener she’s ever met. Fourteen years later, their children are almost grown. Bruce wants Louise. Louise wants freedom. What happens after truths are told?
A Perfect Robot – (3M, 3W) A marvel of art and technology, Mollybot is an almost perfect and affordable soulmate. When her creator goes off in search of the last missing piece to her soul, her machinery is left vulnerable to the commercial and jealous side of creation. Her body and programming are threatened. With only Alan Turing at her side, can Mollybot scale the distance between robot and human, subject and self?
Tender Rough Rough Tender – (1M, 1W) It’s the hottest summer on record and Bell’s picked drinking over people. Mike’s got experience fighting fires but their attraction is a whole new disaster. What does it take to know someone? A sad catchy dance song of a play.
Scarlet Letter (6W,4M) – A new play based on a classic story. Hester Prynne has been sentenced to wear a scarlet letter. Her young daughter Pearl asks questions Hester can’t easily answer. And then a familiar stranger comes to town… This adaptation offers fresh interpretations, an expanded cast of characters, and new insights.
The Caldera (3W) – Best friends Lizzie and Maggie hit the open road in search of health care. Up in the New Mexico mountains, between the fabled country of California and the restrictive lands of Texas, they find themselves. A play about choice, freedom, and addictive tv shows.
Bio:
SARAH SALTWICK is a writer based in Austin, TX. She is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at UT Austin and was a Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis. Her plays have been produced nationally and received critical acclaim from the Austin Critics Table and B. Iden Payne Committee. Recent or upcoming productions include THE PLEASURE TRIALS at Amphibian Stage in Fort Worth, TX, Moxie Theatre in San Diego, CA, and Dramashop in Erie, PA and EGRESS, co-written with Melissa Crespo, produced by Amphibian Stage, SLAC in Salt Lake City, TheaterWorks in Hartford, CT, and Cleveland Playhouse in Cleveland, OH. Other plays include THE CALDERA, EUROPA, A PERFECT ROBOT, TENDER ROUGH ROUGH TENDER, an adaptation of THE SCARLET LETTER and THE GIRL WHO BECAME LEGEND, a new folktale for young people. She is also a Co-Director of Holden & Arts Associates, a theatrical booking agency specializing in exceptional work for young people and families.
Website: www.sarahsaltwick.com