Recommended by David Hansen

  • Abridged Theatre History For People Who Have A Cursory Interest* | *(please note we have not verified these facts)
    6 Aug. 2021
    Any play that includes “Danse macabre” is a play that gets me, and this play gets me. A brief discussion on the transitive nature of staged drama by two civilians who try kinda hard to understand that, and I recommend it.
  • "Freakin' Ow"
    5 May. 2021
    I feel this. I’m feeling it right now. Thumbs up.
  • Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot?
    5 May. 2021
    The best dialogue naturally winds it’s way from an impossible first encounter through to a common understanding. This brief piece is a nice reminder of the potential for that understand, when people listen. There’s hope fir us all!
  • Corrections
    4 May. 2021
    This was painful, and true. My infant son was injured under my care (he’s 16 now, I was teaching him to drive tonight) so I felt the devastating pain of the loss at the center of this piece. It’s a devastating but delicate two-hander about regret and the need to carry forward, and I strongly recommend it.
  • CRACKED
    30 Apr. 2021
    In this short play, this six page monologue, Suilebhan presents a lyric and gentle rumination on the nature of existence, bundled into a small, delicate spheroid. A provocative, promised “demonstration” takes the shape of a sermon, through which the egg represents all things, and no thing. It’s a gorgeous piece of surprising depth, and I highly recommend it.
  • Alien Motel 29: The Secret Outtakes of the Ebony Lady Macbeth
    29 Apr. 2021
    Alexander’s script takes its inspiration from “the Scottish play” reinterpreting it as a cross-generational Afrofuturist fever dream, in which Top Dollar and Lady Lava aspire to dominance in a poetic fantasy replete with vengeful ghosts, mysterious strangers and sex robots. It's a trip, it's got a funky beat, and I can bug out to it. Highly recommended!
  • Fremont Junior High Is NOT Doing Oklahoma!
    29 Apr. 2021
    (A) Do we produce a problematic yet popular American musical featuring a diverse cast, which may serve to undermine the worser aspects of the work and provide visibility and advantage to BIPOC these performers or (B) create a new, so-called divised play reflecting Gen Z anxiety and concerns which may not actually be good and no one’s going to want to see but at least it’s not fucking Oklahoma? This play is so funny, even Thomson’s stage directions are hilarious. Highly recommended!
  • What Was Lost
    28 Apr. 2021
    McCasland has created a creation myth, about the original production of "The Glass Menagerie", centered on its ageing star, Laurette Taylor, who originated the role of Amanda Wingfield. It is a story of recovery, poetic in its own fashion, as Taylor presents at AA meetings, her stories of personal struggle rival that of Tom, the narrator of the play she is starring in. Williams plays his part as an alcoholic philosopher who inspired his mother figure into sobriety, for her own sake, but really for his, you know? It's fascinating, hopeful, and I highly recommend it.
  • Clyt; or, The Bathtub Play
    26 Apr. 2021
    The playwright playful anachronrizes the tale, it is then, but also now, with phones and media and humorous, contemporary turns of phrase. But it’s comic relief, which serves to make the tragedy, the drama bearable, not to send it up. The protagonist endures such grief, the absence of her husband, the murder of one child, the dismissive behavior of her other children. It's gorgeous and funny and upsetting and wonderful. Highly recommended!
  • The Two Kids That Blow Shit Up
    25 Apr. 2021
    Max and Diana were united when their parents began sleeping together, and over the next thirty years they manage their folks and themselves, two souls entwined in a need for trust, for having one person that they can entirely count on. And that’s hard. It’s a very touching, soul-bearing work that jumps back and forth in time, from childhood to middle years, and all points in between, creating a tapestry of love and dependence. It’s worth it to have someone.

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