←Recommendations of Pilloried

It is difficult to stage a play with two characters who cannot move. Jillian Blevins meets the challenge head on (or in) and keeps us fascinated and interested throughout. Excellent pace and dialogue and the piece MOVES without motion! Well done!

I can only imagine how funny "Pilloried" is in performance -- the opening image, the physical comedy, the language. But what I especially love is that Jillian Blevins balances the humor with a bit of insight, of philosophy about our lives and the lives of others. I'd love to see "Pilloried" onstage.

I was fortunate to see this twice at the 2024 Samuel French Off Off Broadway showcase. Jillian is a witty, thoughtful, talented writer with incredible pacing - and it's no surprise she was a finalist with this play. Funny, sharp, I can't recommend this enough.

A well-deserved winner of the Sam French OOB, Jillian Blevins manages to not only make us laugh, but teaches us something we'd all do well to remember about our own sense of self worth. Doxy and Wilkin make a great comedy team in the best sense. Wilkin's straight man (even if he physically can't be one) perfectly complements Doxy's "Devil-May-Care" foil who isn't about to let a thing like waking up in a pillory ruin her day. But I just hope she hasn't started a public trend for squeezing cheese.

A hilarious short play about getting over shame and looking at the bright side of a bad situation. Great piece for two comedic actors.

Doxy is a less refined Eleanor Roosevelt, who once declared that "No one can make you feel inferior without your own consent." We live in an era of random stocks-er-pillories, and we're all guilty of something, so let's take Doxy's advice and fart as loud as we can.

Pilloried is a fine example of wisdom arriving at the strangest of times and the most unlikely of people. Very well done, and no surprise that it won the OOB New Play Festival.

Very proud to say of Jillian that I knew her when!

Blevins' '24 OOB Winner is a smart, wholly original and hilarious exploration of public shaming that, though ostensibly set in the actual pillory-using past, works equally well for our times. With two fantastic roles for actors, this is sure to be a hit with any audience.

A delight, philosophical and scatalogical in equal measure. Blevins has created a funny, bawdy, strangely touching meditation on guilt, public disapproval, and finding ways to soldier on through life's indignities - and she has as much fun coming up with theatrical ways to demonstrate those indignities as she does coming up with flights of medieval verbiage that would do the Pythons proud.

A refreshingly original glimpse of life, and a wonderful lesson about attitude being the salvation from circumstances that cannot change, even, as in the case of Doxy and Wilkin, when you are locked side by side in the same pillory. Jillian Blevins has crafted a beautiful, hopeful tale of resilience and defiance, and made it wickedly funny, raunchy and joyful!

We all need a Doxy in our lives. Someone to remind us to laugh at the little things and to never take ourselves too seriously but most importantly to find forgiveness for ourselves and each other-for our own HUMAN-NESS…cuz if we don’t, we don’t stand a chance. None of us. Nice to meet you Doxy!