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  • Stephen Kaplan:
    21 Jun. 2023
    We ended our high school senior-directed one-act festival with this play and it was a terrific way to leave the audience laughing and smiling. The way that the humor builds and quick pace of the piece made for a thoroughly enjoyable play for the students to work on and for the audience to enjoy.
  • Emily Siegel:
    19 Jan. 2023
    A unique plot with such entertaining dialogue to follow along with. I loved the twist at the end, and found it a hilarious read!
  • Ian Thal:
    19 Sep. 2021
    A dark comedy about fate, and coincidence, chance, and (possible) vengeance, and the mysteries that connect a table at a small Chinese restaurant the factory where fortune cookies are made. It's fun and suspenseful, with joke after joke even as the tension continues to ratchet up to the conclusion.
  • Cole Hunter Dzubak:
    13 Jul. 2021
    This was so much fun. It was super creepy yet funny, charming yet fierce, the characters all were well defined and had their own unique voice. Levine pulled off a fantastic piece with this show, and the ending of it is both thrilling and humorous. Great work!
  • Steven G. Martin:
    28 May. 2021
    Absolutely effervescent -- the comic dialogue in this 10-minute play is like little bubbles rising to the surface of a liquid and bursting with joy.

    Mark Harvey Levine has written a dashing comedy filled with humorous conflict that just grows and moves quicker each minute it goes. "Misfortune" is a wonderfully quick and easy read, and it would be an absolute laugh riot on the stage.

    "Misfortune" is very deserving of its long, rich, and varied production and award history.
  • Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend:
    28 May. 2021
    Oh my GOSH. A man's fortune cookie tells him that the person he just ate dinner with will kill him tonight, and hilarity ensues. This short play deserves all the awards it has won and more. It's just terrific.
  • Rachel Feeny-Williams:
    28 May. 2021
    This play is an absolute riot! It starts funny and by the end I was laughing out loud! It also has multiple layers of funny too! The fast paced dialogue, the biting remarks from the various characters and the brilliant physical comedy (won't say too much to ruin it) stack together to make this piece a wonderfully funny short play. If I saw this at a festival I think it would stand great chances!
  • Cheryl Bear:
    25 Jan. 2021
    An absolutely hilarious fortune! Fantastic!