Recommended by David MacDowell Blue

I really enjoy this little play, a nice "twist" and deep dive into a bit of classic mythology. A comedic (as opposed to comic) re-examination of legend through a lens hinting maybe, just maybe misogyny really is a thing (btw oh yes it is) and was back then. That we are perhaps in some ways wiser. I think that is a good thing.

I had the great good fortune to sit in the workshop readings of this play, and frankly adore it. Myth meets capitalism, environmentalism meets fragile masculinity, all in a brew of hope and guilt and fear and frustration. I strongly believe this play captures what live theatre does best--not the blase strictures of naturalism, but the inner lives of human beings made manifest on stage.

Saw this play in Los Angeles before the Pandemic, one of the most powerful works I've ever seen, not least because it transported me to a world both alien yet completely understandable in presentation. Set for the most part inside a Soviet women's Gulag, this work continues to haunt me years later.

One of those truly oddball comedies, based on desperation and love, affection and guilt, insight and blindness. I really liked this.

I had the great good luck to read Carl, and the whole thing is delightfully odd, full of contemplations that aren't a distraction but rather make up the story. Because they do in life. I genuinely admire Mark's ability to squeeze powerful brews of humanity out of hilarious weirdness.

Life is or can be absurd, and this play explores this like a kind of positive WAITING FOR GODOT but with sex.

I found this play chilling on so many levels, a portrait of those pushed to the absolute limit and what happens when they break.