←Recommendations of Screen Play

Hansen gives us a powerful piece of writing. His well-crafted characters and their conflict confront us with a high dose of realism and a razor-sharp message.

Powerful depiction of the dangers of misguided perception. One person's average sexual encounter is another's forced assault. What I love most about this piece is that it will undoubtedly make the audience think, wonder, evaluate any and all encounters with the opposite sex. Any piece which forces an audience to think, to re-evaluate past experiences is a success in my mind. This piece is not easy to watch (and I imagine it won't be easy to perform), but it is this difficulty which produces its BRILLIANCE! Thought-provoking and powerful! What more can we ask of a play?

The journey of "Screen Play" is masterfully crafted, with each moment building momentum right up to the end. The scenario is real and relatable, and I imagine audience members - male and female alike - asking themselves many of the same questions they encounter through what begins as a simple conversation between HE and SHE. This play will stay with me for a long time.

This is a very necessary play. Hansen captures a lot of the current conversations we've seen in the media lately where people like to pretend consent is a murky situation (when in reality it's not). This gripping play gets right to the center of the argument and pulls no punches. I also love the back and forth between this husband and wife and what this conversation reveals about each of them.

EXCELLENT work - this play doesn't mess around. Nothing extra here. Only what's necessary to tell this particular story happening all over the country for the past year or so. I'm so glad Hansen is writing this because if I write this, I'm labelled for it. And I'm so grateful this play exists! I love how HE (the character) doesn't get it at first (because he didn't get it back then either, never even wondered about it), and I grin ear to ear at the end of this play for the hope it gives.

Wow. This is a fascinating play. I had no idea where it was going and each page brought something new, something chilling, something fascinating. The characters aren't named, so you should feel anything for them, right? No, this play packs a real punch--and it's going to live under my skin for quite some time. Wow, a truly masterful piece that accomplishes a ton in its short length.

There's a lot to process in these 11 pages. Hansen works exposes one of the many questions most males in today's society have to ask themselves about their past. The feeling of dread and pain that starts seeping in little by little is intricately crafted with each line of dialogue, till at the end catharsis sets in and the question suddenly becomes a bit too real. Poignant work for the current state of affairs.

What begins quite innocuous turns downright insidious in Hansen's short play. Much like the products of the protagonist's Google search, his past with the woman in question is permanently etched... no delete key, edit, or "save as" can undo what has been done. And darker still is the image of the two main characters deeply engaged in their own screens, instead of each other's lives... making the likelihood of true connection in the modern world seem less and less certain. Unsettling, dark, messy... three reasons why you should produce it now.

Certainly the darkest piece from Hansen I've read, but I've been genuinely curious what he'd do in these waters. To be honest, this is more or less my favorite use of language. This is all about interpretation, subtext, implication, passivity, intuition, and more implication. You're not going to have an "easy" time with this one, but you're going to want to know who wins. You're going to want to know whose point gets made. Drama tends to end on one truth or another, and at the end of this conflict, dinner may not be the only thing that's settled.