←Recommendations of EGG IN SPOON

We included this play in our high school senior-directed one-act festival and it felt very important for our students and audiences. Four strong female roles dealing with issues that are sadly not very far from the subtle dystopian atmosphere in the play.

An excellent short play whose slow burn to darkness and Dystopia will surprise audiences. The characters, the setting will seem familiar, but they live under the added burden of women's reproductive rights being cast aside. "Egg in Spoon" doesn't show the fight against misogyny. Rather, it shows the consequences and it's all the more powerful because of that.

Sharp, easy going narrative with four clearly defined characters. The play takes a sombre, unexpected turn that is all the darker for the familiarity with which the women are resigned to the situation. Sensitive and graceful.

Reproductive rights are gone and we're taken to a dystopian future where a marriage license is needed for birth control. But hey, we still have Downton Abbey. Well done.

I got a chance to see "Egg in Spoon" at the Midwest Dramatist Conference. It was quick, sharp and poignant. A story I think the world needs to hear and one that forces the audience to think. It definitely was filled with turns that I completely did not see coming. I'm glad I had the opportunity to witness it live.

Metaphorical stream-of-consciousness is Rachael Carnes’ forte, and she's in fabulous form with "Egg In Spoon," a pointed, humorous, and politically apt take on sexuality. And as is her wont, she takes us on a journey we think is going in one direction, then stuns with hairpin turns that we should – but don't – see coming.

Winsome, bittersweet, hilarious, subversive, shocking, and, above all, pointed: Carnes' piece is delivered with poetical polish and a strong sense of clarity around her politically relevant topic. This is a short play to wrestle with, one that offers no easy answers and lets no-one off the hook, including the audience. I usually tend to see plot twists coming a mile away, but was so pleased to be continually caught off guard by this timely play.

Such a great play! Metaphor Galore! Humor! Surprise! Truth! Carnes takes the stage and uses it to make us notice - we can't look away - and then she throws us into a blackout so we can ponder it.

Wow. This all too timely play really caught me off guard. Carnes' witty dialogue and well-drawn female characters draw you in, but just when you think you know what this play is, it takes one unexpected turn and then another, with devastating results. Extremely well crafted.

Four generations of women in a near future that is a little too possible for my tastes. Even with the dystopian anti-women overtones of the world built, the thing referenced afterwards most throughout the weekend of the Midwest Dramatists Conference was the great grandma getting sex lessons in the nursing home.