Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

Having noticed several recommendations & great title, I've been curious for a while, and now I'm well satisfied! END OF PLAY's dialogue should be a primer for anyone looking to improve their exposition - used here as ammunition brilliantly - between the 1st and 2nd Respondent, we get a large window into their long/colorful personal history. Williams also carefully reveals the play itself with specific language that lets the audience feel smart, as if we're ahead of the play's characters, and there's real joy in that!

Have I said how jealous I am of their childhood? Their friendship? This foursome is like a dream come true. Their dialogue is fabulous. Their humor is character-driven. The stakes are really high. And their imaginations are ON FIRE!

Tears are always a really big thing, imho, and that is why people sit in dark theatres in order to hide them. And this play is a perfectly great reason to sit in a dark theatre with strangers and enjoy a few of one's own tears when no one is looking because they are paying attention to Bertram and Robert and their own.

This is awesome! I totally love Zoey. I have mixed emotions about Daphne, and yet she is absolutely heroic in this brilliant play. Thank you Scott Sickles for this feat of ingenuity!

Such a great monologue! A wonderful challenge for a kid to perform! A huge emotional journey that kills me.

The tadpoles and the tiara girls, the pollywogs and the Pollies, what is real and what is socially acceptable and how ridiculous we are, us humans, who have such notions about how we should all behave - this is so fascinating - the idea that tadpoles become frogs and the fantasies they engender... (you must read the full version to find out what happens) and it is worth it! READ ON!!!!!

Such a great monologue!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bertram's language is so wonderfully character-specific! Thank you Scott Sickles for this beautiful play - yep, a whole play in a monologue. Because the world shifts.

I really wish I could do my whole childhood over again with Zoey! Or maybe be Zoey? I'm still not sure. And no one told me I could be a they until very recently - it doesn't seem fair at all. But Sickles has made this thing for kids, and I am so jealous! It's beautiful and makes me want to cry in a good way. Read it. Produce it. And weep.

The language choices! The Attitude! The gestures (unwritten), but I can just SEE them happening! This is a hilariously fun monologue about the banality of childhood and all the boring tea parties we suffer through (quite queerly) while our hearts are pining for Zoey across the street - brilliant!

Remember Who's On First? LIE LIKE A RUG takes that to another level and then improves on it! Jerry Polner knows comedy, and he knows how to make stuff happen onstage that translates into me cheering for his schlubby protagonist. I found this play to be a real delight filled with laugh out loud moments, physical action and slapstick, and who doesn't love slapstick?!