←Recommendations of "JOEY"...A Ten-Minute Drama

Four didactic characters surround Joey and Sarah, and each tells their story to the audience. Heartbreaking and unfortunately realistic, this short play packs hard punches. This is an amazing 10-minute play.

This play tells a huge, important story in a mere 10 minutes and I challenge any reader to keep his/her eyes dry while reading it. What a gift this play will be to whatever audience it reaches and I hope it reaches hundreds! From the time Speaker One enters to the final lines by Joey and Sarah, Mr. Loftus gets his very important point across without polemic or lecture but only with the deeply moving monologues. Schools, churches, colleges, regional theatre, take note: easy and inexpensive to produce and appropriate for nearly all ages.

One Joey is the voice of thousands who were traumatically victimized. His pain weaves in and out of sync with those who intellectually...academically rationalize what has happened to children. This is a hard play to read and will be a very difficult one to perform, but it's a play that *should* be performed. A highly potent ten minutes.

Angry, didactic, and gut-wrenching, in “JOEY... A TEN-MINUTE PLAY” Loftus pushes all the buttons and unleashes all the feels with knife-sharp precision. Written entirely in direct address, he juxtaposes cold hard facts with the experiences of a child and his mother who have been separated at the US/Mexican border, and the never ceasing questions they have about each other, questions they will never have answered. It’s horrifying and heart-breaking. Pay attention to the carefully choreographed staged directions, which tell as much of the story by their chess-like patterns as do the characters. A brilliant, unsettling, unfortunately necessary play.

A heart-wrenching and beautifully done play about the border conflict. Excellent work!

Loftus imagines a future of traumatized adult children who were separated from their undocumented parents. It's a future that's more than plausible, it's most definitely going to be reality if we do nothing to prevent it. In these dark times, playwrights like Loftus imagine an American future not because they're pessimistic -- they are desperately warning, begging, hoping, demanding that we do something to demand action against an evil administration. Heartbreaking, haunting, this play is a smart choice for any production of short plays on immigration.

A touching play about children from the Border conflict. I liked the imagery Joey uses about his long-lost mother. The use of four space-shifting Speakers to represent political points of view is highly effective.

Looking at the present through the eyes of the future. Thank you, Donald.