←Recommendations of Off Center

A well-constructed short that reminds the audience there is more context to every stranger whose behaviour may confuse or irritate you, whether you’re lucky enough to have their story rolled out for you in such a dramatically satisfactory way.

Easily one of Jacquie Floyd-Priskorn’s best works, yet one not relying on her signature sense of humor. Rather it is infused with her sense of humanity, another hallmark of her writing. Like Marco the security guard, I think everyone will want to give Melody a hug. Lovely work deserving of all its success.

Filled with surprises, happy and poignant, this is a play that begs to be produced. The role of Melody is a gift to actresses and the guards who letdown their guard are flesh and bone and nuanced. Charming and sweet with the knowledge of what can be robbed from you for no reason at all. Abstract art. Abstract life.

Plays like this are right up my alley (to read and write!) It's witty and endearing and has a beautiful flow and heartwarming ending. It's amazing how much character development is done here in such a short piece. Loved it!

OMG! What a beautiful play. It's not often a play brings me almost to tears, but this one did. It's so poignant in so few pages. It's simply ... wonderful!

As an avid museum-goer, I have intimate experience of returning to the same work for years, sometimes perplexed, sometimes feeling that I have seen something new, and on occasion I suspect I have gained insight in the artist's intentions. A meditation on aesthetic experience, creative intentions, and the institutions that support both creativity and apprehension.

This is a piece of art.
Jacquelyn Floyd-Priskorn's beautiful characters have pointed to the light peeking out of the darkness, highlighting a meaning to everything. When I tell you I literally cried reading this play... love it!

As someone who always embarrasses my family by talking to security guards in every art museum we go to (because the security guards know SO MUCH!) this lovely play is right up my alley, creating a wonderfully rich sense of place and the philosophical musings that these palaces to imagination - or big dots - so frequently afford us.

Maybe it's not the art, it's the slowing down to see and listen... I'd love to see this onstage, and look forward to listen to it in podcast format.

A poignant consideration of what truly makes an artist an artist. There is poignancy, too, in Melody's gradually revealed dementia and Marco's deep compassion. This is an engrossing piece with several surprising and moving turns. I would love to see it staged.

A poignant consideration of what truly makes an artist an artist. There is poignancy, too, in Melody's gradually revealed dementia and Marco's deep compassion. This is an engrossing piece with several surprising and moving turns. I would love to see it staged.