←Recommendations of LA 8 AM (a ten minute play)

Easily one of the most gripping and well-crafted short plays I've had the pleasure to read! The theatrical device Levine utilizes is arresting and incredibly clever, with a twist that somehow manages to feel like a gut punch and also totally inevitable. I'm grateful to Levine for allowing my playwriting group to read this as an example of a short play, and the entire group laughed and gasped the entire way through.

This short just vaulted to the top of my list of favorite 10-minute plays. Perfect execution of the humor, the heartbreak, just all of it. I cannot recommend this play enough.

So cool that LA 8AM by Mark Harvey Levine was on the NPX homepage, resulting in a flashback to 2012 when I saw it at the Secret Theater in Long Island City, New York. What a methodical and melancholy and magical play! I remember leaving the festival stunned by how good it is. Sometimes sadness is so beautiful you savor it. Less is much more - and the most nothing argument turns out to be everything. I could watch this play over and over again.

How would you do any particular thing if you knew it was the last time you would ever do it?

A fascinating, somber thought experiment provoked by Levine's beautiful and simply heart-wrenching short play. A reminder to make the most of each moment we get, it hits like a ton of bricks. And it's no wonder it's had a long life of productions. It'll be hard to reduce future ones to sheer numbers, for it ain't slowing down any time soon. Just excellent.

Oh my god! The twist on the ending of this piece just hit me like a slug to the gut! However, even taking that amazing twist aside, this ten-minute piece is remarkable. Not do the characters have a unique way of communicating between themselves but for me, it was a wonderfully unique way of presenting theatre in 'showing' and 'telling' at the same time. In eight pages Mark provides inspiration, heartache and emotion in spades! The fact that it has such praise does not surprise me in the slightest!

This thought provoking short play by MARK HARVEY LEVINE hits hard. Numbers... Countdowns.... Spoons. A poignant reminder that every... no... every minute counts. BRAVO!

Wow, what a trip in only 8 pages! I went from, "Oh, this is cute," to "Oh, this is kind of profound," to "What? WHAT?" and now I'm sitting here contemplating the mysteries of life. What a perfect little play.

I thought this short play was another clever way to have characters argue, and then wham, it turns on a dime. It puts life into perspective with a crash.

A provocative and engrossing piece that packs so much into its tight structure. Part of our student-directed one act festival and it resonated with everyone in the audience.

A provocative and engrossing piece that packs so much into its tight structure. Part of our student-directed one act festival and it resonated with everyone in the audience.