Jean-Pierre Martinez

Friday the 13th Jean-Pierre Martinez

John and Christine have invited two of their friends for dinner in their London home. Natalie arrives without her husband, distraught, having just heard that the plane bringing him home crashed at sea. With the potential widow they wait with baited breath for news confirming whether her husband is among the survivors... and learn that they are the winners of that evening's super jackpot lottery draw. From then on, the operative words are "controlling emotions". And that is just the beginning of this eventful evening, with twists, turns and revelations galore. A play for 3 or 4 men or women. Jean-Pierre Martinez is a French playwright and scriptwriter. He was born in 1955 in Auvers-sur-Oise, France. He wrote 70 comedies, four of them (Friday the 13th, Strip Poker, Him and Her, Critical but stable), translated in English. Jean-Pierre Martinez experienced first the stage as a drummer in various rock bands, before to become a semiologist in the field of advertising. He worked afterwards as television scriptwriter, and came back to the stage as a playwright. Today he is among the most played contemporaries playwrights in France, and several of his plays have already been translated in Spanish and Portuguese.