I Wanna Hold Your Hand

$17.99

Our lives can change in an instant. One moment you’re getting engaged, and a few surreal moments later you’re sitting with strangers in an ICU waiting room, praying your fiancé will survive a brain aneurysm. While waiting for Frank to wake from a coma, Ada meets Julia, Paul, and Josh, who are waiting for their mom to wake up. A tenuous friendship is born. I Wanna Hold Your Hand looks at life, death, and recovery, and what it means to try your hand at living again...

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Our lives can change in an instant. One moment you’re getting engaged, and a few surreal moments later you’re sitting with strangers in an ICU waiting room, praying your fiancé will survive a brain aneurysm. While waiting for Frank to wake from a coma, Ada meets Julia, Paul, and Josh, who are waiting for their mom to wake up. A tenuous friendship is born. I Wanna Hold Your Hand looks at life, death, and recovery, and what it means to try your hand at living again...

Our lives can change in an instant. One moment you’re getting engaged, and a few surreal moments later you’re sitting with strangers in an ICU waiting room, praying your fiancé will survive a brain aneurysm. While waiting for Frank to wake from a coma, Ada meets Julia, Paul, and Josh, who are waiting for their mom to wake up. A tenuous friendship is born. I Wanna Hold Your Hand looks at life, death, and recovery, and what it means to try your hand at living again...

 

"The play chronicles the bittersweet connections that are often sparked between strangers at the time of unimaginable tragedy and the fragility of that condition that can also lead to frustrating missed connections. Patterson has created a touching and often humorous journey through the struggles that befall—and mostly strengthen—the lives of those afflicted."
Arts In LA

NOMINEE, Stage Raw Awards, Best Playwriting

I Wanna Hold Your Hand is a full-length play in two acts, with one intermission.

Cast: 3 female, 3 male
Genre: comedic drama
Keywords: stroke, recovery, family, infidelity, health care, love

Character Breakdown
JULIA, 30s, an actress.
PAUL, 30s, a good son.
MARY JEAN, 60s, their mother. Recovering from a brain aneurysm.
JOSH, 30s, also an actor.
ADA, 30s, a book editor.
FRANK, 30s, engaged to Ada. Recovering from a brain aneurysm and a stroke, suffers from aphasia.

"I Wanna Hold Your Hand contains so much hope and love and new beginnings and is absolutely comforting. Well-thought out, rooted, artistic writing, capturing the laughable and sometimes dark complexities of human nature."
Gia On the Move

 
 
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