<html><body><span style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Playwright Peter Anthony Fields' one-act stage play, MONSTER, will</span><br style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">premiere in St. Louis, MO on March 4, 5, and 6, and again on March 11,</span><br style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">12, and 13, as a selection of First Run Theatre's Spectrum 2022</span><br style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Festival of Short Plays. </span><br style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The works of seven other playwrights will also be showcased,</span><br style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">including Steve Martin, Bruce Bradley, Marcia Eppich-Harris, John</span><br style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Busser, Karen Saari, Joe Weintraub, and Rita Winters.</span><br style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Fellow playwrights have this to say about MONSTER, by Peter Anthony</span><br style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Fields:</span><br style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Christopher Plumridge: [1] 28 Sep. 2021 “ From half way</span><br style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">down page one I became fully engrossed in this powerful and stirring</span><br style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">piece by Fields. School shootings must be amongst the most upsetting</span><br style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">and heartbreaking events to ever have to hear of. We all question the</span><br style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">existence of God in these horrible situations, the writer brilliantly</span><br style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">brings this to the stage in his excellent, highly tense script. This</span><br style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">will stick in my mind. ”</span><br style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Andrew Martineau: [2] 27 Sep. 2021 “ MONSTER is an</span><br style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">allegorical drama that packs a potential full-length narrative into</span><br style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">ten brief minutes. The piece is so intense in its questioning of God</span><br style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">and of those who preach forgiveness after a school shooting that it</span><br style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">works well as a very short play. The horror of this scene and twist at</span><br style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">the end leaves the audience’s heads spinning in what I would imagine</span><br style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">to be shocked silence. This play would certainly generate much</span><br style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">discussion about the moral ambiguities that Fields explores.</span><br style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Breathtakingly dramatic! ”</span><div><span style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Congratulations, Peter! We are proud of you!</span></div></body></html>