←Recommendations of FAMILY BY NUMBERS Award-winning 10-minute drama

FAMILY BY NUMBERS is a cleverly-wrought spoken motet—a rhythmic and melodic fugue for solo and entwined voices that explores a remarkable array of life’s eternal issues in just a few short minutes: love (romantic, parental, familial), sibling rivalry, regret, grief, and memory. A lovely, poetic, and indelible piece.

Arianna Rose tells a moving and heartbreaking story with originality and theatricality. Lyrical and haunting, "Family by Numbers" will stay with me for a long time.

I had the opportunity to see Arianna Rose's emotionally-moving play produced in Michigan in the Playbytes By Playwrights 10-Minute Festival. The play's ability to shift moods from moments of humor, impending dread, to heart-felt grief, and finally hope is truly an impressive feat. It reads very well, and based on my experience seeing it, plays even more memorably.

A beautifully moving, emotionally charged piece that will have audience members hugging each other tight as they leave the theatre. The play realistically portrays a family's struggle to get along and find balance until an unforeseen, tragic incident pushes them to a beautiful yet heartbreaking reconciliation. "Family By Numbers" is a very powerful and grounded play with all-too-familiar dialogue and relationships that guide you to reflect on your own life, mortality, and family values - just don't forget to have a tissue handy!

Family by Numbers provides a lyrical, thoughtful, and emotional portrait of a family, their trials, their togetherness, and their tragedy. Simple, yet emotionally deep and resonant.

Family by Numbers plays a number on your emotions. It starts as a simple boy-meets-girl love story, evolves quickly to a family dramedy, then veers unexpectedly to a tense mystery. Poetic, emotional, and original, Arianna Rose’s script presents a familiar family tale in a riveting and memorable manner.

So glad I found this play. It is so beautifully written, and I can't believe how much emotion and story the playwright has portrayed in a mere ten minutes. It's wonderful.

"Family by Numbers" tells an emotional story using presentational dialogue and action. Rose compresses decades into mere minutes, moving at breakneck speed. She also provides enough detail for audiences and actors to understand characters' emotions. This play is direct, spare, and unflinching.

A play for stages worldwide, for various cultures and communities. This is stellar, stunning, poetry on page that'll become pure magic on stage, breaking the fourth wall, inviting the audience, reminding them -- Nothing like family, the love and joy of belonging in a home together, despite any tension and conflict and hurtful words. You must read this. And produce it. Share it.

Absolutely wonderful play--beautiful, theatrical, haunting--and astonishing that all of what's going on here takes place in only ten minutes. Would be so powerful on stage. Loved it.