←Recommendations of But What Do We Do With the Plane?

This is a timely play with brilliantly constructed characters that create tons of opportunities for actors of all backgrounds. My favorite line, "We only say so many words in our lifetime, you know?". Every moment and word in this play continues to surprise you. Highly recommend.

Sharp as a knife and blisteringly funny, Michael Tricca posits a seriously funny scenario which is so fitting for this time and place in America today. Like throwing a bag of fireworks on a dumpster fire, the result is chaotically funny and fun as hell to look at. This play made me laugh out loud a number of times in the reading. I can only imagine how much an audience would howl at seeing it performed.

When we open with two terrorists giddily discussing their hijacking plan like a couple of children staying up far too late at a slumber party...you know you're in for some dark, dark, dark, and hilarious theatre. Tricca has crafted this play with such delicacy and care that the satire works just perfectly and is wrapped up in a way guaranteed to make any audience laugh at the pure ridiculousness of the whole situation.

This play is wonderful. Two terrorists are planning to fly a hijacked plane into the Capitol, but Trump's terrorists are already there. Should they continue with their plans anyway, or should they fly somewhere else? This comedy is DARK and savagely funny.

Terrorism (and I'm writing this just days after the storming of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021) is such a fraught topic that it's a challenge to treat it satirically. Michael Tricca has done just that in his 10-minute farce, where the terrorists are treated as numbskulls at a loss with what to do with the rather cumbersome piece of equipment they've hijacked. Since in addition to the terrorists, the pilot and co-pilot are on-stage gagged and bound for the play's duration, it would be fun to see how a director handles these silent characters.

A genuinely laugh-out-loud, yet sharply focused on contemporary times, 10-minute comedy.

Michael Tricca upends all expectations of terrorism and terrorists in "But What Do We Do With the Plane?" The characters and their dialogue and decorum (a cost-benefit analysis?!) would feel right at home in a 19th century comedy of manners. It's juxtaposition that I've never experienced before, and it's especially pointed considering the world in which these actions are set.

Your audiences will be shocked briefly, and then they'll roar with laughter at "But What Do We Do With the Plane?"

The worst part about this play is the state of affairs in which it was written. Everything else about it is GOLD (re: all of it). Michael Tricca flexes his satirical muscles, producing a work that is both hilarious and poignant. They often say we laugh so we don't cry, and this dark comedy hits that nail right on the head.

Okay, I'm going to start off this recommendation by saying it is so hard to do good satire about horrible events, while providing excellent commentary and making it overall hilarious. I said it is hard, but not impossible, because this play proves Michael Tricca is an expert at it. From the first line I was doubled over laughing, all while recognizing that, while hilarious, this play holds a mirror to what's right in front of us, in a way that we can't ignore.