←Recommendations of The Super Variety Match Bonus Round!

When is a Game Show suddenly a crazy-great play? You care so much for our heroes as your laughs outnumber your tears, but they are joyful tears. So simple in it's premise and execution but elaborate in it's successful outcome. And who doesn't love that title? Great roles for comic actors.

Deb Hiett is a master of Tone: Her ability to make plays about pain and loss so effortlessly funny leaves me in awe. Moments of great power and emotion are mixed together with hysterical lines that stop the show. The reviews are telling the truth. Highly recommended!!

A beautiful story that gives the inexplicable grief of losing a child a comedic healing. Well done!

Deb Hiett deals masterfully with parents’s grief for the loss of their son in “The Super Variety Match Bonus Round!” A very funny and heartbreaking play — we root for this couple as they deal with the changes in their lives, hoping they can adapt. Well done.

This hilarious and heartbreaking play takes two older grieving parents through the looking glass (courtesy of a raver kid's stash) when the mother's beloved game show comes to life in garish form, but the questions have actual consequences on their lives. This script is clever, funny, arch, and poignant, as the two can't decide whether to move forward or keep the memory of their dead son alive. The characters are richly drawn - both quirky and relatable. This play is a great ride and I would like to buy a fast pass.

I've heard recently from contest readers that plays featuring parents coping with loss of a child are a current trend; when trends like that happen, the ones that rise up are the ones that are able to find ways to tell those stories with a unique voice, theatricality and, most of all, humor. This play does all that and then some, and I fear the only limitation in reading it was my own imagination. What a ride this must be on stage!

This is a kaleidoscope of a play, a Pandora's Box of the current American experience that reveals so much about how we go along, get along, and get touched in unexpected ways. Themes of family, loss, regret, hope, and grief are layered upon each other within this truly theatrical piece. This is one of those gifts a playwright gives you that makes you want to cherish everything inside - the story, the message, the laughter, the pathos, & the spirit in which it's been given.

It’s rare when you see a play and find yourself both laughing hysterically and moved to tears. In The Super Variety Match Bonus Round, Deb Hiett takes a familiar subject – the grieving process – and explodes it in the most unique and inventive ways. The characters are beautifully drawn and the writing crackles, keeping audiences engaged at every turn.

I freaking love this play! It's funny, it's sad, it's weird and it's got great parts for actors. Deb's writing is incredible because it hits all the spots - the feels, the laughs and it makes you think. That skill is on display in full effect in The Super Variety Match Bonus Round. I've seen the play from reading through production. It's rare that a play is truly funny, truly entertaining and truly emotional. This play takes you on a real satisfying journey. I'm a huge fan of both this play and Deb's work.

Creative script, delightful roles for a range of actors, and, all in all, beautifully realized.