A Three Martini Lunch

Tamara Jones, a former production stage manager/operations supervisor in
the Entertainment Department of Paramount Canada’s Wonderland, has
relocated to Burlington, Vermont.

A Three Martini Lunch is a trilogy of linked plays that were first
performed by Lunchbox Theatre in Calgary. These clever and well-crafted
plays feature richly drawn characters and situations ranging from the
naturalistic to the surreal (e.g., a talking dog).

In “Conversations with My Neighbour’s Pit Bull,” Robert Teller,
an overly analytical philosophy professor, seeks to influence his
obnoxious, yard-obsessed neighbor by befriending his dog, while his
precocious daughter Ellen struggles with caffeine dependency and the
onset of puberty. “House of Glass” follows 12-year-old Ellen, who
has shoplifted some condoms, into indentured servitude to her neighbor
Beth who owns the store. In the last play, “Up on the Roof,” Robert
gains some perspective on his life when he finds himself on a rooftop
with a fighting couple; the couple’s relationship is falling apart,
while Robert’s vertigo traps him on their roof.

Into the comic fabric of these theatrical and witty plays, Martini
successfully weaves moments of profundity and pathos.