←Recommendations of The Remarkably Unremarkable Crucifixion of Emma Reynolds

An intriguing script that breaks the fourth wall and makes the audience an unwitting spectator to Emma's plight, which ultimately creates an uncomfortable level of cognitive dissonance as they consider what led to Emma's circumstances and their ultimate reaction to her predicament.

DANIEL PRILLAMAN’s “The Remarkably Unremarkable Crucifixion of Emma Reynolds” had me totally engrossed. There is so much one can take from this play. Bullying is horrible. This piece had me thinking about social awareness, actions and passivity. Great work!

Daniel Prillaman continues to leave a haunting impression in my head with this chilling, twisty monologue that mesmerizes and breaks your heart in equal measure. This in performance/production would be such an intense experience for actor or audience. I eagerly await the day that happens.

Haunting. Would love to see it onstage.

Hindsight is 20/20, and "The Remarkably Unremarkable Crucifixion of Emma Reynolds" forces an audience to wonder what had happened in the past, and why nothing was done to check it.

I was filled with dread from the first image of this monologue to its last moments, which seemingly will never end. Anger, too, as I wondered how Emma was put into the position she is in, and guilt, because I didn't do anything to help her.

It's all in the title.
Emma.
Her crucifixion.
And an event that should have been shocking – should still BE shocking – just kind of happening.

Emma recounts her story with a graceful yet awkward calm.
Unlike Lovecraft with his "I must write my account before evil breaks down the door" urgency, Emma has time.

She and Prillaman insulate us from the horror while stealthily enveloping us in it, making us helplessly complicit in her fate.

It resonates. It sticks.

Like Emma, you're not sure what happened...
You just know that it has.
And that it still is.

Uniquely unsettling!