←Recommendations of Hot Blood Sundae

I think this would be so much fun for actors and production team and a funny and smart addition to any short play festival. Lots of deftly handled surprises.

Not just deftly dropping an insanely good title, Kantor brings what might be the only lycanthropy-positive story I've ever seen. It's delicious (heh heh heh). Jess and Bex's conversation while waiting for test results gives us a feast (I'll stop) of insight into the simmering rage and exhaustion that comes from living under patriarchal "feminine" standards. It's funny, smart, and just the perfect amount of cathartic. I'll never think about ice cream the same way again.

I love a comedy -- any play, really -- that pops with this much life and works on this many levels. Hilarious dialogue, characters to really bite into (yup, I said that), an excellent dawning reveal, further surprises, and most of all a central metaphor that's both fun and loaded with resonance: sexuality, body image, diet culture, gender expectations...all of these are there in this delicious story about appetites, and the special permissions we feel we need to give ourselves to get what we want. This does everything I want a short play to do.

This is a brilliant 'no holds barred' conversation between two women about what sex and bring in a relationship means to them. The back and forth between them were topics blend from one into the next makes for some brilliantly funny but insightful dialogue. Aly's ability to write this honestly is truly wonderful and personally, I think we all need to howl once in a while!

I'm obsessed. I love Aly Kantor's "Hot Blood Sundae." It blends a traditional horror concept and contemporary issues in a daring new way. It's raw. It's weird. It's hilarious. And it took me on a wild ten-minute journey. Highly recommended.

Holy wow! Profane and irreverent and as I drink my morning coffee I am here for it. This is a wild two-hander, darting and weaving around myriad 'taboo' subjects with breakneck pacing and dialogue that snaps.