←Recommendations of A Mini Play About The Able-Bodied

Terrific satire with laugh out loud physical humor and absurd dialogue. H. Avery absolutely gets their point across about parents’ desire for their child to be “normal” and some of the fundraising activities that are used to support a host of differently abled children. It’s all laughs until Avery’s final gut punch lands. Would love to see this performed.

Brilliant and painful. Perfect (plausible) satire.

This play makes you laugh out loud at its absurdity. You almost forget about the true centre of the tootsie pop, but soon enough, your teeth will find resistance.

Pointed satire that is simultaneously ridiculous and scary. Would love to see it staged, especially to watch the physical comedy.

Dystopian satire. How often do we see works of that sort? H. Avery's "Bodied - TEN MINUTE PLAY" is casual about its horror and direct in its outrage. Social commentary with a knife edge. Many others have stepped up to recommend this work. Please allow me to join them!

Those last lines hit hard after letting you ride through the over the top ridiculousness of this "medical" conversation. The message here is funny, harsh and clear. I love the skewering of the amount of money that goes into "awareness fundraisers" and how little it goes to actually helping those they are raising awareness for! Absolutely brilliant satire here.

This is such good satire. It's surface-level hilarious, what with the sticky noodle arms & all, & then those noodly appendages drag you down to a really dark place & make you think about some real grim shit.

H. Avery has written one of the most brilliant criticisms of what it means to be able-bodied I have ever read. It effortlessly makes you uncomfortable so that the underlying message is portrayed effectively.

The more controversial your point, the more levity you need. H. Avery offers a masterwork of criticism here -- a comical/absurdist setup with inept parents that unleashes increasingly piercing rebukes of the medical establishment, the emotional-support establishment, the charitable fundraising establishment, the torture-as-conversion-therapy establishment, the sterilization-as-ultimate-goal establishment, the patriarchy-indoctrination establishment, those who pervert the intention of DNRs, and more. Very skillfully done.

This play needs to be staged if only to see how a play about noodle-armed people dealing with the travesty of a newborn with - gasp - hands would even work. This would be a fascinating creative exercise and I would imagine there are enough creative types out there willing to give it a go. Just don't offer to give them a hand staging it. You'll be run out of town. H. Avery wins for the strangest concept I've read in a while.