←Recommendations of Delete

A compact and concise package that has a whole lot to say. You could take it at face value and be entertained, but this play unpacks much larger and darker themes that have staying power. Once you buy in to what the play is doing, the final line has a chilling and lingering effect.

Jacquelyn Floyd-Priskorn serves up a very powerful short play with a light and fluffy topping. Once you cut past the metaphor and get to the dark subject matter underneath, you’ll be hit with a sobering effect that will stay with you long afterward.

This brilliant work speaks to my deepest fears of being stuck in administrative purgatory and dealing with endless tech issues. A punchy short piece that has you peeling back layers of brilliantly crafted allegory.

A great example of how effective a short, short play can be. Everything extraneous is peeled off so the bare bones of what it means to delete all the "bad stuff" slams you over the head. Also a great example of how to make a metaphor come alive.

A short play that's dark and heavy in its finality. The cruelties and the randomness of life are laid out without any attempt to soften the blow. The kind of play that made me slump back in my chair upon reading the last words, just to take a few moments to take it all in.

The powerful short play Delete unveils the dark corners of where we are now. Priskorn’s smart dialogue and powerful storytelling offer a profound comment on society with a few dark comedic gems. The ending is…woah. So well done.

Jacquelyn Floyd-Priskorn hits a bullseye here with another of her absurdist/allegorical short pieces. (See also JUST GO RIGHT THROUGH.) A gut-punch of a metaphor, made all the more effective by the gentle frankness of its delivery. Packs a wallop.

A perfectly crafted metaphor that never hits you over the head with its meaning. This play gives you exactly the right amount of information at exactly the right pace. The characters are at once familiar and mysterious. A very enjoyable read.

Sometimes it feels like all of life is on our electronics. A clever comparison leading to a very good, yet sad, ending. The use of sound is powerful.

There’s something of Beckett that seems at work in DELETE, especially in the way the unexplained gunshot stage directions instigate the action, and yet it’s the variation on the sleep-walking words of Lady Macbeth (“What’s done cannot be undone”) in Jacquelyn Priskorn’s purgatory drama that seems to hold it together in a place somewhere between office speak and demonology, between IT and It. I love it that there are both mistakes we brought on ourselves and mistakes that are done to us and that both are ambiguously consequential. Fine work from a fascinating playwright.