For Pete’s Sake

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Peter Thornton is a frustrated actor who has just been flattened in a car accident and finds himself dining with a deity. Peter is given the opportunity to decide the fate of his unborn son: he will live an ordinary, relatively happy life or one filled with fame, fortune… and unbearable sorrow.

Inspired by the tragic life and sudden death of JFK, the play explores 3 things: the possibility that inherent in every familial blessing there is a hidden curse, our propensity to desire for our children the realization of our own thwarted ambitions, and out hapless proclivity to dismiss the little everyday joys, not knowing what we have until it’s gone.

Winner: Best Play – PS Writers Guild / Gannet Newspaper Competition
Finalist in the Playwright Circle’s National Playwriting Festival – June, 2000

“I saw a staged reading of For Pete’s Sake and I dug it… Grabs you by the throat… Literature as recreation… Let’s hear it for this fine playwright.” – Bruce Fessier, Entertainment Editor for Desert Sun

“I thoroughly enjoyed reading For Pete’s Sake. Powerfully emotional and thought provoking, it would be an excellent play by which to help people reconsider their goals and to realize the every day things for which they are grateful.” – Christian Wolfe of Curtis Theatre