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I cannot thank or praise Scott Sickles enough. In my personal staunch defenses of the Oxford comma, I no longer need to articulate my (correct) arguments. I can now point to this masterpiece. Not only is it British humor at its finest, it is the goddamn funniest fucking play. I so want to speak on it more, but I cannot do so without spoiling the perfection of its pacing, the glorious absurdity of its build, the ridiculousness of its characters. Just read it. Then do it. This will bring down any house (wink), no matter the festival or theatre.

This is not what Shakespeare meant by 'A Horse, A Horse, My Kingdom for a Horse!'
This short play by Scott is hilarious and troubling for a Brit such as myself, can the monarchy really fall due to a comma? The royal household should read this play to ensure such a tiny mistake does not wreak such havoc and change history!
And I love that the playwright suggests the wonderful, late, great Helen McCrory as a character in this piece, for I can imagine her perfectly in this role.
Nonsense, but hilarious nonsense!

I can't think of a more appropriate person to give a royal rogering to the Monarchy than the King of "horsing around", Scott Sickles. With but a single keystroke (or in this case, the specific omission of one), Scott manages to send hundreds, if not thousands of years of tradition into a tailspin. THAT'S some clever writing. And now that Scott has skewered the Royals (using a "gimlet" of sorts. Perfect!) raise another kind of Gimlet (the drink kind) to toast this wily bastard.

Love, love, and love. This short play manages to capture the essence of royal absurdity --"the title is only... titular"--ha! Just when you think it couldn't get any more absurd, Sickles piles on the puns and ridiculousness-es. Thank you for a well needed laugh this morning!

I can think of no better succession for the throne of England than the scenario that Scott Sickles lays out in this short, wickedly funny play. I love his skewering of royalty and grammar, though as a copy editor, I have to say that if the Royal Family had adopted AP Style instead, Arthur might have had a different fate.
The Oxford comma is dead! Huzzah!

For want of a comma… I was thinking those very words and then they appeared on the page! But for this funny, witty, completely original play, the only things wanting are more readers and opportunities for staging! Hilarious!

"A horse, a horse, my kingdom ..." As a firm proponent of the Oxford comma and an amused observer of British royalty, I enjoyed Sickles's implication that the royal family is no more worthy of rule than a bunch of equine posteriors. Sickles nails the characters of the poor King who has waited all his life only to be near the end of it, as well as his horsey sister. And he does so in much less time than "The Crown." PS: Note the absence of the Oxford comma in the title, and its presence on page 4 - clever!

As a recovering teacher of English, and having just sat through the first episodes of Season Six of "The Crown," I can certify that Scott Sickles nails the royal family -- not to mention their love of the equines -- to a fair-thee-well. This is a hilarious, jovial (comma) sketch, and no one dare say neigh.

One desperately wants to see this produced, if only so one can relish hearing repeated RP-pronounced intonations of the name "Dirty Gimlet".

And to reiterate, affirm, and assert the importance of the Oxford Comma.

Five stars. No notes.

Hilarious! ("Dirty Gimlet!") Sickles skewers royalty and punctuation in this short play with four very fun characters (and a very funny and surprisingly apt title). I have no doubt this would be a blast to perform as well as to watch.