←Recommendations of Locker Room

A fun and revealing look at the dynamics that take place on the field and what it would be like if the band were the same.

Funny and quick, LOCKER ROOM does an excellent job at flipping the roles we force boys into playing. I makes me wish American society encouraged boys to engage in the arts as much as it encourages them to play sports.

This ten minute play is smart and charming with a delightfully unexpected twist. It also says a lot about the way boys are pressured to perform their masculinity in competitive environments and it would be a great short piece for students since there are so many roles for young men.

This is the first play I've read on NPX that sent me to the dictionary...

A fun mashup of two competitive cultures imbued with as much testosterone that could be fit into this delightful shortie. Hageman uses the absurdity of the situation to show us the ridiculousness of our competitive and confrontational nature (that our society takes for granted). A winner.

Quite brilliant, I sat up and grinned when the kick came in. This would definitely be a crowd favourite, especially at the laugh out loud dramatic moments. Hageman shows that specificity can really bring life and believability to even the most unsuspecting of situations. Locker talk for the win.

I've always subscribed to the belief that specificity makes good comedy, and this play has some truly hilarious specificity! Hageman displays a unique and skewed take on typical jock talk that boils down to pure fun. There are some great roles in here for actors to really enjoy themselves with, both physically and through dialogue.

This is so much fun! The fun during the first half is figuring out what kind of team these players on - is it football? Math? And then, a few clues, and then bam, the reveal (not giving it away) and the unexpected showdown known as 'embrochure'. Parodying the language of bros and jocks, Hageman creates a one-of-a-kind comedy examining and buffooning masculinity.