Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: LAUDANUM by Rachael Carnes
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    LAUDANUM - like shell-shock - jars and estranges experience before our eyes so that we are made to see it instead of pass by or through. I love that Carnes has a sense of Time as continual/ongoing/accruing within us that informs her intensely dramatic instincts! This would be an amazing piece to watch!

    LAUDANUM - like shell-shock - jars and estranges experience before our eyes so that we are made to see it instead of pass by or through. I love that Carnes has a sense of Time as continual/ongoing/accruing within us that informs her intensely dramatic instincts! This would be an amazing piece to watch!

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  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: When We Get Her Home by Deborah Savadge
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    This is such a nightmare of a situation, and Savadge does a great job leaking out bits of truth as the play moves to its crushingly inevitable end. I have a visceral reaction - my skin is crawling with anxiety - wow!

    This is such a nightmare of a situation, and Savadge does a great job leaking out bits of truth as the play moves to its crushingly inevitable end. I have a visceral reaction - my skin is crawling with anxiety - wow!

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  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: CHOCOLATE by Judd Lear Silverman
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    This metaphorical journey functions on many levels and is funny, romantic and touching!

    This metaphorical journey functions on many levels and is funny, romantic and touching!

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  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Curves (a monologue) by Lindsay Partain
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    YES! I absolutely remember learning to suck my tummy in! This is such a fantastic piece of dramaturgy that takes us from the suck to the gym to the kitchen; from the shame to the pain to the hunger and the love! It goes all the way with the journey, and I am the better for having been on this ride. Thank you! Second helping please!

    YES! I absolutely remember learning to suck my tummy in! This is such a fantastic piece of dramaturgy that takes us from the suck to the gym to the kitchen; from the shame to the pain to the hunger and the love! It goes all the way with the journey, and I am the better for having been on this ride. Thank you! Second helping please!

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  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Classics For Kids by Ellen Davis Sullivan
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    Yes, this is a winner - a great play to entice young readers and to inspire adults to read to children. So creatively thought out - it would be so much fun to costume! And the ending is perfect!

    Yes, this is a winner - a great play to entice young readers and to inspire adults to read to children. So creatively thought out - it would be so much fun to costume! And the ending is perfect!

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  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: A Semicolon is a Double by Larry Rinkel
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    Here is a surprising and beautiful love story! What a unique way to understand language! What a stunning and world-changing moment in high school when everything is so awkward. This is a great short play that would be perfect in so many LGBTQ festivals (and clearly has been) - I hope it gets produced far and wide!

    Here is a surprising and beautiful love story! What a unique way to understand language! What a stunning and world-changing moment in high school when everything is so awkward. This is a great short play that would be perfect in so many LGBTQ festivals (and clearly has been) - I hope it gets produced far and wide!

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  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: EARTHWORM KID: A MONOLOGUE PLAY FOR AN ACTOR'S INDEX FINGER by Asher Wyndham
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    I wish I had an earthworm dance party in school when I was 5 or 6 or 7. This is such a fun imaginative piece! It fills me with the joy of being alive!

    I wish I had an earthworm dance party in school when I was 5 or 6 or 7. This is such a fun imaginative piece! It fills me with the joy of being alive!

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  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: I Found Her Ear and She Stole My Heart by Ryan M. Bultrowicz
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    Fabulously (and fable-like) strange play that moves from event to event so fast and fills the stage with characters who are so filled with the enormity of their desires, it is a pleasure to imagine. Even the offstage characters are completely clear to me as if everything in this play is drawn with an assured and dark line. Love it!

    Fabulously (and fable-like) strange play that moves from event to event so fast and fills the stage with characters who are so filled with the enormity of their desires, it is a pleasure to imagine. Even the offstage characters are completely clear to me as if everything in this play is drawn with an assured and dark line. Love it!

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  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: The Audience Disturbs Marcel's Bath Time and He Is Very Upset With You All by Ryan M. Bultrowicz
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    This is wild! Read it and produce it quickly before he has to get out of the tub! Producing this play will not cause wrinkles or skin puckering in audiences except while they are laughing hysterically - and afterwards all the wrinkles will pass!

    This is wild! Read it and produce it quickly before he has to get out of the tub! Producing this play will not cause wrinkles or skin puckering in audiences except while they are laughing hysterically - and afterwards all the wrinkles will pass!

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  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: HEY, EMILY DICKINSON, I GOT A CHEESESTICK! A One-Minute Play for Two Kids by Asher Wyndham
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    Love that this play can be done anywhere by anyone and for free! This is such a generous piece from a generous writer with an enormous heart, and it shows in the drama of it, and it all ties into itself which is lovely. And brevity! Great!

    Love that this play can be done anywhere by anyone and for free! This is such a generous piece from a generous writer with an enormous heart, and it shows in the drama of it, and it all ties into itself which is lovely. And brevity! Great!

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