Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

  • Oh, Dear God, Dad is a Feminist
    25 Mar. 2024
    A beautiful play about a father and a daughter who are strong enough to enjoy each other's strengths while standing up to each other. The injuries are metaphorical and meaningful, and the characters gain strength in the playing through relating to each other. I love how the play breaks the fourth wall and gives the audience so much attention. Ruyle creates a lot of complexity in a form that is often void of nuance. Well done!
  • Snooze: a monologue
    25 Mar. 2024
    Very funny and specific piece that would be a blast to work on as a monologue. Can be done by anyone. And yet the quirk factor that Cameron delves into should be a good reason to do this. I mean it's quirky in a good way.
  • Sayle Island, not exactly: A One Act Memory Rendered Queerly in Multimodal, Polymorphous, Intergenerational, & Transtemporal Perspective
    25 Mar. 2024
    A beautiful exploration of a communal memory created with an ensemble of fully alive characters in various life-stages (multigenerational) and with great pacing and drive, a journey to an island they may never reach, a wanting, a longing that is a kind of nostalgia for an imagined future all the while the past slips behind. I am fascinated by this play and will probably keep re-reading it.
  • Yellow Wallpaper 2.0 2020
    18 Mar. 2024
    Wow! This is an incredibly dramatic piece that pulls no punches about motherhood, breastfeeding, cis-het-partnering, the neediness and selfishness of white men, the pressures on and anxieties of people who give birth and our desire to have lives beyond our ability to feed and clean our spawn, the loneliness of parenting as the primary caregiver... There is so much said here in EDGE Of ONE's SEAT DRAMA about the inequities that continue to this very minute. This play is so relatable. I wish I'd written it! VISCERAL and full of desperation. POWERFUL!
  • Just In Our Little Family
    18 Mar. 2024
    A wonderful short that will be super for actors to dig into. So much history uncovered without it feeling exposition-y. So much that happens in this brief exchange. There are moments of realization and recognition that land with real force. Well done!
  • Boy My Greatness
    15 Mar. 2024
    A stunningly theatrical play that will surely take the world by storm. The exploration of gender and sexuality, the characters embodying these predicaments so wonderfully, will surely make this a classic play for many years to come. I love a play that can be performed on an empty stage, and this is so gorgeously written! A tour de force!
  • Etz Hayim
    10 Feb. 2024
    A beautifully structured one-act that would be very moving to see performed. I love the timelessness and ungroundedness of it, and yet we are firmly situated in the Warsaw ghetto in the center and then Senese-Grossberg lets the play move back to its timelessness, and I could feel how universal the play could be, how it ties us to any 2 girls in love for the first time caught amidst evil forces at work to destroy them, so relevant today.
  • Sweet Home
    5 Feb. 2024
    A wonderfully complex situation, real-to-life, 3 dimensional characters, and great moment to moment storytelling that evokes an entire world. The humor lightens a hugely awkward situation, and yet Cameron understands how to allow for the depth of the humanity on display here, so that the big events of this play landed with me, and I had room to feel them. I also love that it's a play with a trans/nonbinary character that isn't only about that. A rich, moving piece!
  • SPATSY KLOTZ
    6 Dec. 2023
    The voice! The story! What a wonderful and wild ride! Spatsy Klotz and her whole neighborhood and their history on display here in such complexity, there should be more, but I'll take it. Fabulous language that creates such a vivid character! So specific and filled with tension beginning to end. Brilliant!
  • The first whale
    3 Dec. 2023
    A stunningly powerful and theatrical metaphor of genderqueer life, adaptation, being misunderstood, time, and evolution. Beautiful. A poetic dream full of hope. It will be gorgeous onstage and funny and heartbreaking and uplifting.

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