←Recommendations of Misfortune (a ten minute play)

I swear this is better than most of what I've seen on Saturday Night Live for years. This would be at home just about anywhere -- ten minute play fests, sketch shows, maybe as part of the reel for an actor showing they can do REAL comedy on stage. It's such an efficient, clever idea and I would kill (how fitting!) to see it performed live!

Mark Harvey Levine's "Misfortune" is the gold standard. It's the perfect short play: absolutely hilarious with a marvelous twist. I've seen it performed a couple of times and it never fails to grab the audience's attention and keep them laughing.

Hilariously absurd

Mark Henry Levine does it again. A laugh out loud fest you would love to see performed.

This is a delicious comedy with a compelling undercurrent of suspense. Barry's mounting hysteria is hysterically funny. The twist ending takes us out on a high note and reframes everything that came before.

This play was an absolute joy to read, full of clever twists that had me laughing the whole way through. I can only imagine how great it would be to see it performed on stage.

We ended our high school senior-directed one-act festival with this play and it was a terrific way to leave the audience laughing and smiling. The way that the humor builds and quick pace of the piece made for a thoroughly enjoyable play for the students to work on and for the audience to enjoy.

A dark comedy about fate, and coincidence, chance, and (possible) vengeance, and the mysteries that connect a table at a small Chinese restaurant the factory where fortune cookies are made. It's fun and suspenseful, with joke after joke even as the tension continues to ratchet up to the conclusion.

This was so much fun. It was super creepy yet funny, charming yet fierce, the characters all were well defined and had their own unique voice. Levine pulled off a fantastic piece with this show, and the ending of it is both thrilling and humorous. Great work!

Absolutely effervescent -- the comic dialogue in this 10-minute play is like little bubbles rising to the surface of a liquid and bursting with joy.

Mark Harvey Levine has written a dashing comedy filled with humorous conflict that just grows and moves quicker each minute it goes. "Misfortune" is a wonderfully quick and easy read, and it would be an absolute laugh riot on the stage.

"Misfortune" is very deserving of its long, rich, and varied production and award history.