←Recommendations of The Menu

I have always thought of menus as items you just want to get out of the way when dining so you can move on to pleasant conversation or a refreshing cocktail. Well, now I really think this way, and I was eerily reminded by Cindi Samson-Braff that choices in life can be intimidating and stressful, despite the benefit of having the power to make one. Choices about death and preparing for it are a part of life, and this short play brilliantly highlights this grim fact. Very thought-provoking and original!

I have just had the pleasure of recording a role in this play to be produced as an audio, reading it aloud really brings it to life, or death in this case!
Cindi presents us with an intriguing choice, we get to choose our own cause of death, mostly quick, some brutal, some drawn out. We will all make our own choice. Audiences will have fun watching this poor man try to decide, while pondering their own demise. Great!

Ah death, that great big mystery that awaits us all. So many times i'll read about people just dying in their sleep and I think, wow, that's the best way to go, and I suppose it is for a lot of us, no time to over think or worry about it.

Wow. As a long-time spiritual seeker, I really resonated to this play and to the karmic attributes of choosing which death you want. A thought-provoking piece that will have each audience member squirming a bit but also thinking about what they would choose. Amid all the darkness we can still make choices that help others and rise above our ego-centered selves. I would truly love to see this performed.

WOW! What a way to go...

If you could choose your own death, short and over quickly or long and drawn-out, what would you choose? Chris's Evite to a party is NOT what he was expecting. Our choices, our actions, and treatment of others... everything counts in this delightful devilish short play by CINDY SANONE-BRAFF.

This is as original an idea as it gets. Ms. Sansone Braff has devised a wonderfully thought out, if a bit macabre, method for helping an old schoolmate choose a way to die. Creepy? A little, but you'll find yourself chuckling (nervously) as you read how the story plays out. And this was inspired by a dream! Well done and would be a great addition to a short play festival.

Oof! This one hit some bleak places. I really liked it! I don't necessarily get pulled to dark stories but this one intrigued me from the get-go. Death by Menu choice is inspired and I loved the dilemma that Chris faces being told to choose not only the method of death (and really, who among us COULD make that choice) but the time as well - instantly versus a drawn out illness is no kind of choice. I think this could provide a very thought provoking production.

CINDI SANSONE-BRAFF takes us on a highly unusual, definitely unexpected, and absolutely fascinating journey in her short play, “The Menu”. Audiences will be totally enthralled with the artful way the tale is told. You will enjoy the read! I look forward to seeing this play performed onstage.

I was drawn to this play by the genre description: "Dark comedy, faith-based, fantasy, science fiction..." I'm thinking, really? How can all of those fit into one short play? But after reading the first line I said "Okay. I get it now."

I don't believe I had ever read anything by playwright Cindi Sansone-Braff, but if this fun, quirky little short is any indication of her style, I will have to read more.

Not only is the concept of this 10-minute comedy very dark, but the execution is very snide and sour. This is the dark comedy that will pucker your mouth and sting your inner cheek.

Cindi Sansome-Braff crafts a view of dying that is ironic and snarky. We get a brief view of Chris's history, the Everyperson Protagonist, but "The Menu" is about choices to be made in the immediate present and their future implications.

"The Menu" is an unrelenting play that is going to be different than anything else produced in a short play festival; oh, will it stand out.