←Recommendations of Group/Text

  • Danielle Wirsansky: Group/Text by Toby Malone
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    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.

    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.

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  • Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend: Group/Text by Toby Malone
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    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 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.

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  • Daniel Prillaman: Group/Text by Toby Malone
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    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.

    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.

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  • Jacquelyn Floyd-Priskorn: Group/Text by Toby Malone
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    UGH! I didn't think a play could totally encapsulate the stress of a group project with the annoyance of group texting! I was so tense this whole play. And it was hilarious! There are so many options for designing the text voice characters, too! What a great piece for students!

    UGH! I didn't think a play could totally encapsulate the stress of a group project with the annoyance of group texting! I was so tense this whole play. And it was hilarious! There are so many options for designing the text voice characters, too! What a great piece for students!

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  • TJ Young: Group/Text by Toby Malone
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    This play is so fun! Starting from the idea of how we communicate to each other and AROUND each other, this script provides not only a way for us to see and laugh at it but also a way for it to be embodied. The super theatrical nature of this play is a lot of fun and provides for a great visualization of text messaging by putting a person there to represent it. Plus, the gender-neutral names allows for flexible casting so anyone can see themselves in this play. So much room for imagination at play!

    This play is so fun! Starting from the idea of how we communicate to each other and AROUND each other, this script provides not only a way for us to see and laugh at it but also a way for it to be embodied. The super theatrical nature of this play is a lot of fun and provides for a great visualization of text messaging by putting a person there to represent it. Plus, the gender-neutral names allows for flexible casting so anyone can see themselves in this play. So much room for imagination at play!

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  • Lee R. Lawing: Group/Text by Toby Malone
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    My partner is always asking me with group texts "didn't you read the text?" and most time I can't lie and just admit, no, or I got bored or intermediated by the number of messages and so this play had me laughing from the very start. I love the way there are two actors for each character, one for the person and the other for the text. Used in the right way, texts can simplify life, but lesson learned of the horror story that can happen when broken hearts come into play! Bravo emoji!

    My partner is always asking me with group texts "didn't you read the text?" and most time I can't lie and just admit, no, or I got bored or intermediated by the number of messages and so this play had me laughing from the very start. I love the way there are two actors for each character, one for the person and the other for the text. Used in the right way, texts can simplify life, but lesson learned of the horror story that can happen when broken hearts come into play! Bravo emoji!

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