Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

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.

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.

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!

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!

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!

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!

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.