My play, “WHARTON BETWEEN THE SHEETS”
Semifinalist: The Road Theater 15th Annual New Play Festival, LA, 2024
Reading: The Salmagundi Club, NYC, 2023
Production: Gloucester Stage, Boston, 2022
Production: Great Barrington Public Theatre in the Berkshires, 2021
Read Christopher Wallenberg’s Boston Globe article here
Listen to Carl Raymond’s delightful interview in The Gilded Gentleman podcast here
What happens when a 46-year-old woman falls in love for the first and only time? What happens when that woman is Edith Wharton?
After a sold-out run at Great Barrington Public Theater in 2021 in which it was nominated for four Berkshire Theater Critics Association Awards, including Best New Play, Wharton Between the Sheets was picked up by Gloucester Stage for production in 2022. The play had a NYC reading at the Salmagundi Club in 2023, and was selected this past summer as a semi-finalist at The Road Theater 15th Annual New Play Festival in LA.
A fantasia…said Jesse Green of the NYT…which the playwright sets up perfectly.
Wharton Between the Sheets takes us to Paris in 1908 and brings together Edith Wharton, her dear friend Henry James, her lover Morton Fullerton and her Irish lady’s maid Posy in an eyebrow-raising retelling of Wharton’s actual mid-life romance. A literary and historical banquet of language, sex, mores and manners, Between the Sheets sparkles with wit while it examines class differences and the complexity of human relationship. More than anything, the play makes us fall in love — with Edith Wharton, with the people in her life, and best of all, with her own glorious writing.
One of the most delightful works of historical fiction to be seen….Explodes with theatricality and imagination — Barbara Waldinger, Berkshire On Stage
…A play of hidden desires and stolen nights, of self-discovery and sexuality, of relationships among friends and lovers, and everything else wrapped up in a midlife affair — Ipswich News
Moving and well-crafted…Theatrical kindling aplenty… — David Greenham, Arts Fuse
Fans the flames…the writing is so good — J. Peter Bergman, The Berkshire Edge
Wharton’s celebratory awakening…witty, urbane…and something more sobering and penetrating — Jeffrey Borak, The Berkshire Eagle
Wharton’s sexual and emotional odyssey and Fullerton’s singular elusiveness are continuously absorbing — Jules Becker, Jewish Journal
WHARTON BETWEEN THE SHEETS is a four-character, one-set play.
Read selected scenes here
For further details, contact the playwright here
For research, inspiration, take a look at the “Fullerton Look Book” here
Myka Plunkett as Posy and Dana M. Harrison as Edith Wharton in Great Barrington Public Theater’s production of MR. FULLERTON, 2021. Photo Credit: Anne Undeland
Ryan Winkles as Morton Fullerton and Sarah Newhouse as Edith Wharton in Gloucester Stage’s production of MR. FULLERTON, BETWEEN THE SHEETS, 2022
Dana M. Harrison as Edith Wharton and Marcus Kearns as Morton Fullerton in Great Barrington Public Theater’s production of MR. FULLERTON, 2021. Photo Credit: Tristan Wilson
Dana M. Harrison as Edith Wharton and Glenn Barrett as Henry James in Great Barrington Public Theater’s production of MR. FULLERTON, 2021. Photo Credit: Tristan Wilson
Joshua Wolf Coleman as Henry James and Sarah Newhouse as Edith Wharton in Gloucester Stage’s production of MR. FULLERTON, BETWEEN THE SHEETS, 2022
Dana M. Harrison as Edith Wharton in Great Barrington Public Theater’s production of MR. FULLERTON, 2021. Photo Credit: Tristan Wilson
Sarah Newhouse as Edith Wharton in Gloucester Stage’s production of MR. FULLERTON, BETWEEN THE SHEETS, 2022
Bridgette Hayes as Posy in Gloucester Stage’s production of MR. FULLERTON, BETWEEN THE SHEETS, 2022
Myka Plunkett as Posy in Great Barrington Public Theater’s production of MR. FULLERTON, 2021. Photo Credit: Tristan Wilson