←Recommendations of The Offer

So much information packed into 9 pages, and yet, this play doesn't feel heavy-handed or dense in the slightest! Two complex characters with a wonderful push/pull dynamic, combined with Poynton's excellent sense of worldbuilding, creates a play that is quick to read but impossible to forget.

Poynton packs multiple gut punches into this timely short about the prices of greatness. Grace is a wry, intelligent, and immediately respectable protagonist; in just nine pages, Poynton creates great drama by facing her with numerous thought-provoking dilemmas.

How can a simple job interview be so gripping? In The Offer, Bella Poynton provides her accomplished protagonist Grace with an escalating sequence of professional and personal dilemmas courtesy of the man who fired her from NASA five long years earlier. We are also forced to confront with Grace the real human cost of advanced space exploration. Fascinating intellectual conundrums abound!

Would you go to Mars if you had the chance? This is a quick, fun, wacky office play, but in this office, the boss holds the key to Grace's dreams and her destiny. I love the way the twists and turns take Grace by surprise (and the audience goes with her)!