A brutally honest, unflinching look into the misogyny of show business, PLEASE LAUGH is a harrowing ride through what is either a Talk Show filmed in hell or just a very normal night with James Corden. I have never, in all my years seeing theater, witnessed the cognitive dissonance this play inspires in its audience when they are asked to clap for some of the most horrific punchlines imaginable and reflect on their own complicity in enabling men like the Host to continue their work. Excellent.

Many artists have explored the underlying tension behind the facade of Late-Night shows, but few have implicated the audience as directly as Sarah does in her brilliant play. This is a profoundly uncomfortable and provocative work that perverts the mechanical ritual of the talk show into something more damning and truthful. But even in its incisive takedown of the male-driven Hollywood apparatus, the play still manages to be very funny - eliciting as many laughs as uneasy silences.

Packed with very realistic late night speak and typical hierarchy shenanigans. Cringy and uncomfortable, but like a train wreck, impossible to look away! Single set, flashing prompt lights and a throne make the game of the show workable and potentially fun (though not really). Excellent read and this would be even more fun on stage.