←Recommendations of The Get-Together

Atmospheric. Mysterious. The Get-Together crawls under your skin and stays there. Lives there. This play relies so much on sound in the best possible way. I wish there were a way to watch it with headphones on to truly feel the effect; HP Lovecraft channeled through William Castle. Truly glorious!

I read this twice, the second time seemed so different to the first. I will explain. I read it first as a stage play, visually gruesome, tense, fierce. Secondly, I read it as a radio play, it became all the more terrifying, surreal yet horribly real. Many of Loras' lines are voiceovers, which makes this a clever stage and audio play in one. Producers will have a fun challenge to stage this!

Whoa! Sound is used to maximum effect in this short, scary play. Being given gruesome and ominous sounds, and allowing the audience's imagination to do the rest of the work, is a very successful way to do horror on stage. Even the jazz music was scary by the end - and the silence was maybe scariest of all. I loved how invested this play made me, even though not a lot of background information is given to understand the very bizarre things going on. They say show us rather than tell us, but this play actually makes you FEEL it.

I don't know what I was expecting, but it definitely wasn't this. The feel of the questions is more important than the glimpses at answers, and said feel is tangibly slimy and cool. There's so much done with sound here, jazz music against voice over against screams against fleshy viscera, and the visual treats are just as filling, a 20's aesthetic and tentacles. And what sounds and images we do have still serve to ramp up the biggest scare in this play, the horrors of the unseen party.

Whoa - THE GET-TOGETHER feels composed like a song you want to hear over and over - for its elusiveness, for grim sounds that pair up so well with scary visuals, for the truncated interplay of Lora and Cassidy, and for the way it washes over you with shocks of recognition and macabre imagination. Daniel Prillaman manages to write this savvy horror tale from the periphery of a party - suspense from a bedroom as absurdly gripping as the most arresting scenes of Ionesco - a pitch-perfect fragment of fear. The combo of excess and restraint is irresistible. Superb job!!

Daniel Prillaman’s THE GET-TOGETHER is an atmospheric play whose suspense and horror is entirely reliant on its mystery and open-ended nature.

Ethereal jazz music, the sound of a pickaxe against flesh, and riotous applause all occur off-stage. What does it mean? We don’t have to know, but as the play unfolds, the quiet uneasiness gives way to full-blown terror. Beautifully written and high-stakes—THE GET-TOGETHER is both thrilling and disturbing in the best possible way.

Whoa! Daniel Prillaman mashes HP Lovecraft into a bottle setting and sets it to smooth jazz, creating a taut, tense, thrilling short that is never over-explained or didactic. This is a terrific piece for a themed evening of horror shorts, and would be a sound designer's dream project. What a hoot!

DANIEL PRILLAMAN keeps us in suspense, horror, and anticipation as he keeps us riveted in a play for Halloween and any other time you want to enjoy a horror story. “THE GET TOGETHER” is a well-written play and definitely an audience pleaser.

Definitely a play that should be in any Halloween-themed festival, or any ten-minute play festival. The playwright nails the atmosphere, leaving you constantly wondering what will happen next. You'll have a surefire winner if this play is staged.

If you're looking for horror, this play is it! Daniel Prillaman gives the audience only a few details about what's happening, but is still able to create an atmosphere that just seethes with terror and uncertainty. From the knocks on the door via an unknown source to the tentacle, Philip, this play will disturb audiences for nights after watching. An amazing read!