←Recommendations of Textbook Messages

Brilliant, fast-paced, and hilarious - this short piece would resonate with audience trying to balance and satisfy the entitled and unreasonable world around them. So many cool possibilities for staging this wonderful piece.

Hilarious vivid portrait of the insane text messages we all get at the wrong time that create false emergencies and conflict with what really needs to get done. You may want to turn off your cell phone after you see this play, shortly after, of course, you text Vanessa and say I wanna see you soon at a theater near me.

Everything about this play is wonderful! The characters are distinct and well-defined, the situations are imaginative yet so true to life, the dialogue is sharp and absolutely perfect. This was a ten-minute play that flew by and kept my full attention for every second. Kudos to the playwright. This is such a great idea and so well executed. Produce this play! Your actors will love playing these characters and your audiences will love this show!

Fast-paced, funny, and true-to-life! As a former college prof and private tutor, TEXTBOOK MESSAGES is particularly relevant to me. What a gem of a 10-minute play, perfect for productions in college venues!

ROSS TEDFORD KENDALL’s “Textbook Messages”, is hilarious. There was a time, long ago, when people talked in person, a conversation could be on a telephone with only two people, and a handwritten letter took days to arrive at its destination. We now can communicate quicker, with more options, yet I am not sure things are necessarily better. In this piece, we see what can happen, and probably does, with text messaging. A witty, wonderful, and wild piece!

This play about a student being bombarded with increasingly obnoxious text messages is clever and funny, with a great payoff. It offers a lot of potential for creative staging. It should be a big hit with colleges and universities.

As someone who teaches college courses and tutors on the side, I could seriously relate to this play. I love the dramatization of simultaneous text messages, as well as the message about Canvas being that thing that causes stress. This is hysterical from beginning to end! The ending is perfect. Well done, Ross!

A funny, short play that tackles the world we live in, and the way a lot can get lost in translation via texting as a main source of communication. I laughed out loud at the skillful way the characters overstep boundaries, abuse each other, take advantage of each other, and manipulate all via text. I would love to see this play staged, either live or on Zoom. Bravo!

A hilarious dive into the often farcical world of text exchanges. Tedford Kendall pushes stakes higher throughout, ratcheting up the antics to an absurd degree. It's delightful to see the resulting back and forth, and within it - Find the dynamics of this newfangled communication, where the banal and the base and the deadly-serious, might intermingle with lightning speed. Though it'd be fun onstage, I think this play would be easily adapted and performed on Zoom, as well. A perfect choice for colleges or universities.

A very funny and all-too-real premise about the demands life places upon us and how we deal with them. As a college professor, I thoroughly enjoyed the interchange about "not" using college resources. Dramatist Ross Tedford Kendall skillfully ramps up the predicaments facing Vanessa as she juggles unreasonable texts. Great climax and last line. Would love to see this performed - a perfect play for the Zoom age.