←Recommendations of A Wager

I loved listening to the strained relationship between these two characters! A pretty engaging morality tale! Another play that I really enjoyed on the THEATRICAL SHENANIGANS podcast!

I had the great privilege of producing this play for my audio play podcast "Theatrical Shenanigans" and it was an utter thrill to produce. Sarah and Hadley have created two brilliantly intriguing (although morally questionable characters) and invited an audience to watch as they engage in a brilliantly paced, tension fuelled game of cat and mouse while keeping the audience guessing when it comes to who will come out on top!

Perfect for the stage but ABSOLUTELY perfect for radio theater. Actors would have a ball with these two roles. Two not so virtuous characters playing a deadly game of control for the others fate, yet both so knotted in each other's business, that it reeks of career suicide for both should they try to enforce their wills on the other. This is noir-ish in it's unfolding and the ending is nothing less than genius. I loved it.

Baker and Vogler's "A Wager" is a thought-provoking, high stakes, drama that will assuredly captivate you with its strong characters and intense dialogue. Human relationships are such a complex thing, aren't they? This play showcases those complexities exceptionally well - particularly the lines people are willing to cross to protect their own interests.

A son/daughter-in-law and father/mother-in-law with some nasty business dealings. How can they resolve conflicts with so many shared secrets? That is the crux of this tense two-hander. And the result is perfect! Nicely done!

What a tense scene! The embodiment of diplomacy as the art of carrying a big stick. I feel like I could watch these characters go back and forth all day. I love stories that leave you wanting more. Unanswered questions can be so wonderfully intoxicating.

Oh the stakes are high, the stand off tense, both subscribing to the theory 'Live by the Sword, Die by the Sword.'
Baker and Vogler have created a terse two hander in this play, THE WAGER, both characters are clearly not to be messed with, but who will win this battle of wills?
The conversation between Copeland and Peck is slick, curt and at times nasty, as illegal business transgressions intertwine with family affairs.
Audiences will be trying to work out this play as it unfolds, for there must be many ways this story can end.
Excellent and gripping!

This is a tense ten minute play that goes by very fast. The dialogue is snappy, the theme good and the end result is deserved by both characters.