Recommendations of Last Dance with MJ

  • Eli Effinger-Weintraub: Last Dance with MJ

    :cackles madly: This is a fun, fast-paced, and deeply satisfying tale of revenge and modern dating. An excellent two-hander for two young actresses.

    :cackles madly: This is a fun, fast-paced, and deeply satisfying tale of revenge and modern dating. An excellent two-hander for two young actresses.

  • Lee R. Lawing: Last Dance with MJ

    Great revenge play and funny to boot. Partain captures this very real moment so eloquently with such humor that this reader was bummed that it was only ten minutes! Perfect piece for any short play festival.

    Great revenge play and funny to boot. Partain captures this very real moment so eloquently with such humor that this reader was bummed that it was only ten minutes! Perfect piece for any short play festival.

  • Mark Loewenstern: Last Dance with MJ

    Fresh, witty and relatable. A sharp revenge comedy in fun-size form.

    Fresh, witty and relatable. A sharp revenge comedy in fun-size form.

  • Nelson Diaz-Marcano: Last Dance with MJ

    Partain has in this play the equivalent of a nice breeze on a hot summer day. Quick, it got my attention, it made me feel better, and when done, I wish there was more.

    Partain has in this play the equivalent of a nice breeze on a hot summer day. Quick, it got my attention, it made me feel better, and when done, I wish there was more.

  • Rachael Carnes: Last Dance with MJ

    Hilarious and engaging, Partain's dialogue crackles with truisms -- the technology changes, but the Dating Game remains as rife with challenges as ever. The ease with which Partain delivers the story arc belies the artful structure of the work. This play is a playground for a creative team.

    Hilarious and engaging, Partain's dialogue crackles with truisms -- the technology changes, but the Dating Game remains as rife with challenges as ever. The ease with which Partain delivers the story arc belies the artful structure of the work. This play is a playground for a creative team.

  • Philip Middleton Williams: Last Dance with MJ

    This is a ten-minute Lysistrata for the Tinder age, done with deft and no-holds-barred wit. Lindsay Partain nails the characters without resorting to stereotyping, and woe betide any wannabe superhero who crosses them...they know how to swipe back.

    This is a ten-minute Lysistrata for the Tinder age, done with deft and no-holds-barred wit. Lindsay Partain nails the characters without resorting to stereotyping, and woe betide any wannabe superhero who crosses them...they know how to swipe back.

  • William Triplett: Last Dance with MJ

    Men -- particularly young men -- be very afraid: The two young women in this stinging comedy are on to your BS, and you'll be sorry you ever messed with either of them. This wonderful, laugh-out-loud romp through the Tinder scene and its occasional horrors will make you feel the angst, anger, and delicious joy of revenge as our heroines realize the super-hero look-alike one of them dated turns out to be a lot less than super. Guaranteed fun.

    Men -- particularly young men -- be very afraid: The two young women in this stinging comedy are on to your BS, and you'll be sorry you ever messed with either of them. This wonderful, laugh-out-loud romp through the Tinder scene and its occasional horrors will make you feel the angst, anger, and delicious joy of revenge as our heroines realize the super-hero look-alike one of them dated turns out to be a lot less than super. Guaranteed fun.

  • Joshua Brewer: Last Dance with MJ

    Viciously smart and wonderfully charming, Partain takes the rage that comes with modern dating and plays it to a marvelous hilt. The characters here are razor sharp, as is the dialogue, but it’s the honesty that shines through the most. These two wonderful characters scream with such an authentic voice that it’s impossible to pull away from their struggles in a world that would rather ghost you than engage with you. Oh, and it’s laugh-out-loud funny on top of everything else.

    Viciously smart and wonderfully charming, Partain takes the rage that comes with modern dating and plays it to a marvelous hilt. The characters here are razor sharp, as is the dialogue, but it’s the honesty that shines through the most. These two wonderful characters scream with such an authentic voice that it’s impossible to pull away from their struggles in a world that would rather ghost you than engage with you. Oh, and it’s laugh-out-loud funny on top of everything else.

  • Allan Maule: Last Dance with MJ

    This laugh-out-loud comedy about two best friends devising some well-deserved Tinder revenge is fresh, funny, and well-worth a read. If your theater needs a sexy and smart spearing of how awful online dating is (and which theater doesn't?), this is the play for you.

    This laugh-out-loud comedy about two best friends devising some well-deserved Tinder revenge is fresh, funny, and well-worth a read. If your theater needs a sexy and smart spearing of how awful online dating is (and which theater doesn't?), this is the play for you.

  • Kevin King: Last Dance with MJ

    So much fun! The dialogue is sharp, breathlessly hilarious, and real. I love this portrait of women navigating modern dating, and dealing with modern (or classic...?) men. And the fact that one of them is a "nerd girl" is so great. More of all of this, please!

    So much fun! The dialogue is sharp, breathlessly hilarious, and real. I love this portrait of women navigating modern dating, and dealing with modern (or classic...?) men. And the fact that one of them is a "nerd girl" is so great. More of all of this, please!