←Recommendations of failing at a 1-page play festival

When you try your best but you don’t succeed... Satan will be there to be your biggest supporter... or perhaps your biggest rival. A devilishly funny and relatable one-minute treat.

A very funny play about attempting to stand tall in the face of rejection.

Hilarious one-minute play with Satan as a tormenter of writers. So funny!

Okay, now I know who's behind all those rejection letters. It isn't our own self-doubt, which is the bane of all playwrights, but the Fallen One who is really behind it because the Devil himself can't even get into the O'Neill. But when we learn to share our feelings... maybe there's hope... Or is it just some hellish trickery? John Mabey explores it... and then...

BEHOLD! THE PLAYWRIGHT’S PSYCHE LAID BARE FOR ALL TO SEE!!!

On some level, this play is about every rejection. All of them. We view them all as cosmic, demonic conspiracies because WHAT OTHER EXPLANATION IS THERE???

Often we only view our losses through the lens of those who were celebrated instead: as tiny creatures of profound insigificance. That this rejected piece is one-page-long heightens the humilation because at least 50 to 60 plays BY OTHER PEOPLE did get accpted!

At least we’re not alone, right? Well...
Mabey has an answer for that too.

Hilarous. Painful. Honest.

A funny little 1 page play about 1 page plays that, somehow, manages to say so much. It helps that Satan is so relatable, but the play's effectiveness is most likely the result of MABEY's excellent, tight execution.

JOHN MABEY is an exceptional playwright, who has written a really fun and witty one-minute play, “failing at a 1-page play festival”. I had a big laugh out loud moment, when I read the last line of dialogue. Pull up a chair and read this short play. You will love it!

Well, this is delightful. Even Satan has an inbox full of rejections from theater companies. John Mabey has written a fun one page play that had me giggling.

We've all got a Satan on our shoulders. Who knew he was so adept at dramatic irony?

John Mabey's one-page farce "failing at a 1-page play festival" plays to a lot of writers' dreams and fears and disappointments. Remarkably, within a single page, an audience or reader will, indeed, develop sympathy for the Devil -- a great feat of conciseness and ever-focused forward movement by Mabey.

Watch out for that other shoe to drop, though. It's a doozy, and well earned. This is a marvelous one-page treat!

I KNEW ONLY THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS COULD BE THE REAL FORCE BEHIND LAG DURING ZOOM READINGS! This 1-minute play skewers the submission-rejection-self-loathing-rinse-repeat cycle that we all know so well in a delightful way. This would be such a fun interlude in a night of plays.... or perhaps a zoom reading?