Toby Malone's Group/Text brilliantly captures the chaos of high school group projects with its inventive blend of real-time and text-based interactions. This sharp, humorous play expertly navigates the trials of teamwork and technology, offering a dynamic and hilarious experience that's sure to resonate with both teen actors and audiences.

I love this short so much. The premise is a high school group getting together to work on a school project, and there are text versions as well as physical versions of all the students, so you can see the drama happening both in the room and over the phones. The whole play is a rapid-fire ping-pong of dialogue and texts that is so, so clever and well executed. This is one of the most creative pieces I've read in a while, and I'm sure it would be an enormous hit with audiences, especially teenage audiences.

I genuinely think I scraped through the "group project phase" of life without much PTSD, but Malone's play proceeded to unlock previously forgotten nightmares within the darkest depths of my soul. Thankfully, the play is an absolute hoot. Fun characters, SO MANY INVENTIVE POSSIBILITIES FOR STAGING, and a gradually unraveling web of personal chaos and ineptitude result in some perfect and wholesome cringe comedy for younger actors. I cannot describe how much I would have liked scenes like this to play with back then, because it's just pure merriment. Definitely check it out.