←Recommendations of Fridge

O'grady has created a brilliant metaphor that readers and audiences can map many important relationships onto in this poetic play about a refrigerator. It's silly and sweet and surprisingly deep -- definitely worth a read.

This is everything a ten-minute should be: theatrical, witty and metaphorical. This fridge, for me, is a metaphor for the high cost of a relationship you feel comfortable with but are not sure is worth the emotional investment. Then you have the people on the outside of the relationship just making everything worse. I love the fridge’s affirmation that it can make it after all. Wonderfully inventive and heartwarming!

A lovely metaphor for making a relationship work with an imperfect partner. Plenty of humor fills these pages as the woman's frustration is explored. The resolution models acceptance and is highly satisfying.

So many life lessons to be learned from this delightful tale of a refrigerator in need of repair. The frustration of the woman who owns the fridge is something we’ve all either directed at someone who wasn’t meeting expectations or had directed at us for the same reason. But for refrigerators and humans, no matter how hard we try, some things are beyond our control. Clearly, this play speaks to something we can all relate to. Excellent!

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I don't think we're entirely talking about a fridge here... But this is a well-paced play about...a fridge?...and accepting something you love, flaws and all. The woman could get a newer model, but that doesn't mean that one won't fail her either. There are no guarantees, so if you love something, you make it work!

This short is about a woman's frustration with her refrigerator that doesn't work correctly, and it's hilarious, but it's also about what it means to be broken and discarded and unwanted despite our best efforts, and by the end you will find yourself wondering exactly when you became so emotionally invested in the story of this woman and her fridge - which is the mark of excellent writing.

What begins as anthropomorphized inanimate object absurdist comedy becomes, as the best absurdist comedies do, a parable for the human heart and the human condition. A demonstration of how our expectations of people are like our expectations of appliances: I invested in you and you owe it to me not to disappoint me. "Why can’t you be good?" How many of us have been asked that very question? By parents, teachers, coaches, even so-called friends. How many of us have asked it? At our best, we embrace each other's flaws and limitations, and FRIDGE nudges us in that direction.

The hunger for human connection isn't limited to humans in this delightful and resonant short play. There are subtle levels of need coursing beneath the comic veneer. Not to mention two repair men who stand up to the best of Shakespeare's clowns.

A solid, funny, tight piece that works on a literal level but is clearly about so much more. Seldom has a kitchen appliance been invested with so much meaning.