←Recommendations of All This Togetherness

We included this play in our high school senior-directed one-act festival and it was a fantastic piece to include. A great play for a large cast with strong opportunities for character work and an inventive and touching concept and message.

A fascinating, quick-moving play where characters take time to get to know each other and their father. Though there are things shared about each character, there is definitely a lot of flexibility for directors to play with each character's personality and costume as well as the show's lighting and set.

Francesca is able to work magic with this short piece. Each character feels unique and yet related, urgency and hesitation pool from the characters as the reality of their situation and the leap needed to get to the next point comes to reality. The dialogue was witty and pointed. A great playwright.

A powerful piece on seven individuals who have a universal desire to be seen by their father, but find the thing to be grateful for is each other. Well done.

The emotional impact of "All This Togetherness" is striking. The children of a sperm donor gather to meet their father, and in their hopes is magnified the desires of all children to be seen, understood, loved, and known by their parents. It's at once recognizable, heartbreaking, strange, and familiar. I would love to see this on stage.

A brilliantly imagined and executed 10-minute play. It's a marvel.

For all the rules that some people prescribe to making "A Good 10-Minute Play," Pazniokas brushes aside most of them in order to focus on what (I feel) is the most important: tell an emotional story -- with the highest possible emotional stakes -- well.

Your audiences will be swept up by this play filled to bursting with characters, dialogue filled with straightforward information and implications, and such earnest emotions.

A short play with this big of a cast probably shouldn't work but it really does. The writer knows how to use such a short time to take advantage of the ensemble while also making each character distinct. I felt so invested in this play and that is thanks to the brilliant device of making us (the audience) the person all these characters are hear to meet. This play has so much heart and is just really clever.

You don't often get a short play with a large cast, but I love it when you do because it's so unexpected. Like all of Pazniokas' work. A sublime paella of surprising delectations. The anticipation built in this piece is so palpable, you feel just as desperate, excited, and nervous as the newfound siblings featured within.

A creative and exciting ten-minute play that I didn't want to end. Pazniokas tells a complicated story with a huge cast overlapping all of their lines within just ten minutes, I am SO blown away by her talent. For anyone who's ever craved more family, or more belonging, this play will tug at your heart strings. Highly recommend for both reading and producing.

I wasn't expecting to be emotional or moved over a 10-Minute play, but that is exactly what happened when I read this beautiful piece about the family we may never know and the hopes we have for the people that gave us life. Gorgeous.