Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

Mabey writes a ten minute play like a full length play filled with the complexities of life's brutal curves and adds joy too, and a rom-com arc! What a wonderful play this is! Read it and weep, and cheer!

What a funny and heartwarming play! I love the theatrical device of bringing the dead to help Liz adjust to life outside New York City. As a New Yorker who isn't allowed to even visit Texas, this is so relatable! And I love the way the stories of the grandmothers are woven in with economy and humor and a real adoration for the city of New York. I felt Liz's pain and also her frustration with her husband. The characters are so well-written character, I'd recognize them anywhere.

I highly recommend this strange and fantastic fable play that would be the most fascinating play of any festival. In this random encounter Maxine and Octavia reveal to us new ways of understanding belonging, difference, loss and privilege. Theatrical, beautiful use of language and moving.

I love the way Merilo starts out conspiratorially bringing us into the story as witnesses. Then a fairy tale. Then blood and gore. All bring us deeper into the mysteries and magic of this beautifully unfolding story.
A blending and blurring of boundaries that speaks to the past year of quarantine and the future in terms of how and who do we trust? I enjoyed every syllable of this exquisite play, so theatrical in its images and language.

Wow! This is a great play that is so intense and intensely relevant. I got to see it produced by Interact online, and it doesn't let you go. The tension over the course of two acts is relentless. A wonderful exploration of the history of our culture and how white amerika would erase Black experience and does every day and still doesn't get it even when it's called out. A metaphor and a very specific response to 450 years + of oppression and racism and our refusal to see it and bear witness. A Must See!

Beautiful! I'd like to do the sound design -- Stephen Stills has the perfect outro to this play, but you may not have read it, so I don't want to give the end away! Conceptual plays can often only be about their concept without any follow-through, but McGough manages not only to conceive of a brilliant metaphor, infuse 2 objects with lives, backstories, senses (!!!), setting (!) and emotion, he also creates a forward-moving plot to culminate in a climax and change! And all while moving us to tears!

A fabulous story of a girl trying to find herself, a strange metaphor, like from the Russian Absurdists. It's hilarious and had me in stitches! The ideas of how we are connected, how we are who we are, how we exist in connection with others, and how we relate. The near misses! This is my first experience of Heavisides work, and I'll have to explore more of it. I'd love to see this onstage!

LOVE-ly! And so theatrical and inventive! I love the impossibilities that must be solved with production! This is a wonderful play to read if you need some courage writing impossible things! It's also a super story that begs to be performed.

One of the best plays I've ever read. Not hyperbole. The stories unfold on top of each other simultaneously as I tried to discover how the 3 women connect, and it's stunning! Would be a director's dream- who is bold enough? Such a fluid space, and so theatrical - pure theatre! A play written for the empty space! I love the trunk. Love the costumes, king and crown, the chair, the girl and the corset. Love the legs that don't run away. Love how the play ends. Love the immersiveness. Love love love this play! Read and produce!

I love this brilliant play so much I want to die with it. It's an incredible journey that everyone should read and produce right now, as soon as we get out of the pandemic. Some of the most fun scenes ever. Plus meaning. Inventive language. Fucks with structure in the best of ways. It is the party it searches for.