Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Deluge

    I love that the play ends with a connective gesture. Deluge feels to me like an honest response to a long period of difficulty causes by a great struggle. Something anyone can relate to. As a piece that is open to many interpretations, I hope it becomes a favorite for directors who want to collaborate with it. Brava!

    I love that the play ends with a connective gesture. Deluge feels to me like an honest response to a long period of difficulty causes by a great struggle. Something anyone can relate to. As a piece that is open to many interpretations, I hope it becomes a favorite for directors who want to collaborate with it. Brava!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Mind Control (ZOOM/LGBTQ VERSION)

    Hilarious and HOT! This is one of the best sex scenes ever written! It rocked my Zoom!

    Hilarious and HOT! This is one of the best sex scenes ever written! It rocked my Zoom!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Broken Glass - A Solo Play

    A super title for this wonderful monologue about friendship and fear and reconciliation. Beautifully written. Makes me think about the dangers in this world, how we move or are moved/pulled apart and the ways we try to come back to each other.

    A super title for this wonderful monologue about friendship and fear and reconciliation. Beautifully written. Makes me think about the dangers in this world, how we move or are moved/pulled apart and the ways we try to come back to each other.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Final Dispatch - A Monologue

    Even in the first few words of this beautiful monologue, there is the feeling that here is a writer worthy of attention, someone who is working at the top of their game. There's so much clarity. And the piece itself is so important for those of us who have difficult relationships with our dead. A great healing piece of theatre that is needed! I look forward to reading its companion.

    Even in the first few words of this beautiful monologue, there is the feeling that here is a writer worthy of attention, someone who is working at the top of their game. There's so much clarity. And the piece itself is so important for those of us who have difficult relationships with our dead. A great healing piece of theatre that is needed! I look forward to reading its companion.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: A Complicated Hope

    A beautifully structured, spare composition on grief and love that feels raw and authentic and sweet. The audience makes specific connections through the play through Mabey's use of language and objects as touch points to solder together specific moments through time so that they resonate all the more poignantly. There is room here for the audience. It's a very generous gift.

    A beautifully structured, spare composition on grief and love that feels raw and authentic and sweet. The audience makes specific connections through the play through Mabey's use of language and objects as touch points to solder together specific moments through time so that they resonate all the more poignantly. There is room here for the audience. It's a very generous gift.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: IOU - Monologue

    It is, for me, so sad that we don't get to connect with our dead once they're gone. Who decided that? This monologue tears me up. Such a great story, so moving, and so well told. In retrospect of course this is the story, makes perfect sense, but hearing it or reading it for the first time, imagining the performance, it's a mystery just like the tooth fairy herself. And we all want to believe.

    It is, for me, so sad that we don't get to connect with our dead once they're gone. Who decided that? This monologue tears me up. Such a great story, so moving, and so well told. In retrospect of course this is the story, makes perfect sense, but hearing it or reading it for the first time, imagining the performance, it's a mystery just like the tooth fairy herself. And we all want to believe.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Mother

    This is so much fun! What a wacky piece, a super comedy for any festival! Simple to produce and really twists the premise in the best way!

    This is so much fun! What a wacky piece, a super comedy for any festival! Simple to produce and really twists the premise in the best way!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Major Serious Fucking Diet (a Mother's Day monologue)

    Mordant humor! Love this monologue that is a play all to itself. So clear are the characters, both Julia and Alex, and the husband or wife offstage, and Reese is a study in desire. I know she wants to stick to her Major Serious Fucking Diet but she also seriously resents it! Very relatable!

    Mordant humor! Love this monologue that is a play all to itself. So clear are the characters, both Julia and Alex, and the husband or wife offstage, and Reese is a study in desire. I know she wants to stick to her Major Serious Fucking Diet but she also seriously resents it! Very relatable!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Reacting To Myself in an Apocalypse!!!!

    I love this monologue! It builds terrifically. It's hugely active and fun and funny and poignant and moving. Sorta like Anne Frank in Fascist America, and I think it's awesome. Plus, the language is great - the energy is high, and there's a killer reveal!

    I love this monologue! It builds terrifically. It's hugely active and fun and funny and poignant and moving. Sorta like Anne Frank in Fascist America, and I think it's awesome. Plus, the language is great - the energy is high, and there's a killer reveal!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Guenevere

    From the very start of this fabulous comedy, in the talented hands of Susan Cinoman, I knew this play would deliver on its promise. Guenevere tells a great story from a legend; mixes it up with a feminist lens that is 9 parts funny but also packs punch; entertains beginning to end; and authentically moves me!

    From the very start of this fabulous comedy, in the talented hands of Susan Cinoman, I knew this play would deliver on its promise. Guenevere tells a great story from a legend; mixes it up with a feminist lens that is 9 parts funny but also packs punch; entertains beginning to end; and authentically moves me!