←Recommendations of Sleep Talker

The truly funny business of young relationships. Creepy and hilarious at the same time, this short piece would be a winner on stage.

It's fun whiplash when Floyd-Priskorn shifts from genuine, creepy, goosebumps-inducing horror (the concept of "spooning" in bed undergoes a drastic transformation here) to puerile, sophomoric, side-splitting humor. Nothing in "Sleep Talker" is halfway, and it's a great read because of it. [24/10/31]

[2024-10-30]

Nothing says intimacy like being ready to record your partner's sleep at the drop of a hat. Rory quickly comes to regret her decision in Jacquelyn Floyd-Priskorn's tense, frightening short play with an ending I guarantee you will not see coming. "Sleep Talker" will have audiences talking long after the lights come up. Bravo!

It's not every day you read something that makes your skin crawl and your belly ache with laughter all at the same time. Jacquelyn Floyd-Priskorn weaves magic into much of her work and this play is no exception, but it will surprise you, how she manages to "let it loose"- that's for certain! Sleep well! And put those cell phones away! Don't you know that blue light is bad for you!? (Oct 20, 2024)

This spooky, unexpectedly wholesome, hilarious horror short is a masterclass in spare, effective writing. This is clearly a playwright who trusts her audience to read between the lines and engage with what is left unsaid. It takes a lot of craft skill to create such a short play that is simultaneously terrifying and hilarious, with genuine pathos throughout. Are the demons in Tay's body, or are they merely in Rory's head? Both the horror and humor sneak up on you. What a fantastic, creepy ride!

Dark, terrifying, funny, this show has everything. The emotions run from tender love to terror. Any person in a long-term relationship will be able to identify with this show. Jacquelyn Floyd-Priskorn always manages to expertly add humor in just the right places to help ease the tension and bring you deeper into the story and this brilliant story is no exception. I would love to see this staged. So good.

A hearty huzzah to Jacquelyn Floyd-Priskorn! This is a creepy, unsettling, yet wholly relatable tale. The spider webs of trust and doubt, threat and security, the unknown and the unknowable, all waiting for the slightest vibration to bring doom to your soul. I especially love the innocuous danger of the “others” presented in this piece. We watch. We learn. And with this play, we enjoy the hell out of it.

Now THAT was a fun time! Even as I was being creeped out, I was fascinated with where this conversation between Rory and a sleeping Tay (and possibly someone or something(s) else) was going. Trust comes with a price and in this case, that price may be just a bit to terrible to contemplate. And even in the midst of this uncertainty, Jacquie Floyd manages to insert some stress relieving laughs into the bedroom. I always look forward to her work, and this one was no exception.

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It’s rare when any play makes me literally sit up/need to put down my device/step away for a moment. The moment in question here…goddamn. I mean, O.O! I can’t be more clear.

Or, if you need more, this is a scary (with just the right pinch of funny) short about fear of commitment, nervousness, and the nagging thought: “what if we don’t know our partners as well as we think we do?” Terrifying. I would run straight out of the bed, then the house. And I sleep in the nude.

Wow! How well do we know our spouses or partners? Do we have demons who only reveal themselves in our sleep? This is a fascinating, chilling look at trust and monsters who may be lurking in unexpected places. This play is especially intriguing to those of us who never snore, talk, or fart in our sleep.