←Recommendations of Cricket

“Cricket”, by ERIN OSGOOD, is a beautiful, loving, sentimental play of the closeness one can feel towards a spouse, who has recently passed away. With heart, and truly a touch of tenderness, this play will deeply touch an audience.

You'll choke up, you'll tear up reading this emotional short play. I know I did, and I can only imagine what an audience will feel watching it on stage.

Omigoodness what a sweet and heart wrenching piece. CRICKET showcases in a relatable way things we focus on, like little irritaions, when we want to think about something else. I hope Elsie leans in the way Paul suggests.

This 10-minute piece is a lovely reminder that simple, effective writing and stagecraft can be extremely powerful. "Cricket" is gentle, funny, and sincere.

I'm so impressed by the elegant use of a simple sound cue to evoke the nagging ache of grief that permeates this piece. Well-constructed and full of warm humor as well as deep sympathy for the very real emotions these fully realized characters are experiencing.

Cricket is a tender, quietly powerful short play about grief and enduring love. What begins as a comic irritation—the chirp of a mysterious “cricket”—unfolds into a moving portrait of widowhood, memory, and letting go. With warmth, humor, and restraint, Osgood captures how loss lives in everyday moments and familiar voices that linger long after goodbye. 

I am looking forward to seeing this play on the stage! Elizabeth Coplan -- Grief Dialogues

A lovely piece of playwriting. At turns funny and heartbreaking, with a great sense of character.