←Recommendations of A Day in the News

Sometimes you want to laugh at the absurdity of the many, many tragedies caused by too many crazy people killing innocent victims, as depicted in this satire. Yet, ADAM RICHTER’s one-minute play makes you wonder how our society has so much gun violence. It’s truly mind boggling. “A Day In The News”, in some form, is probably happening at kitchen tables more often than we care to admit.

Simple to stage or film, this piece is almost musical in the rhythmic, dare one say it?, bullet-like dialogue until it stops as suddenly as the heartbeat of a victim. Richter skewers with damning accuracy the deadly repetition of rolling news in the internet age where the terrifying and the blasé merge into one.

Much like the world of the play, which is the world we live in, A DAY IN THE NEWS hits its targets with a powerful BANG! Several in fact. Sharp, succinct, and quietly devastating.

Ooof, this play. It says so much in just one minute. I could honestly seeing this being turned into a very successful commercial by a gun control advocacy group. It's short and powerful.

Short but simply horrifying in the humdrum banality of the keeping up with the most recent shooting, this brilliant one-minute play encompasses so much and pulls no punches. Maybe we will look back on this scene with twisted fascination on this relic from a bygone era from a future where we've enacted gun control. Fingers crossed. Amazing work, Adam!

Though only a page, this play hits hard. It puts in perspective what is happening now, and it manages to shock and scare in its brief runtime.

Sometimes a playwright goes straight to the heart of the matter and lays everyone out on the line. Viewed all at once, it can seem like too much. Which of course it is. Individual shootings are horrifying enough, but normalizing them to the extent that we can become so easily numb to confusing one for the other is monstrous. Adam Richter chillingly packs all of this into a minute. Great work.

The satire of this one-minute play starts in the listing of the setting, even before we meet the characters. Everything you need to know about the tone can be found in "Time: the present, unfortunately."

Adam Richter batters audiences and readers with absolute precision and objectivity. That Noah and Chloe have difficulty remembering one traumatic incident from another is darkly comic -- like 12:01 am in the deepest cave in America dark -- and also sharp commentary about where American life now seems to center.

Brilliant, heartbreaking, clawing work in a single minute.

What is it about 1-minute plays that, when done right, just pack a punch? I finished reading it and went, "Well... f**k," which is exactly the point. Short read. Long Impact.