Recommended by Jenny Connell Davis

Lyrical and lovely, this reminded me of a Mary Oliver poem in the way it laced together beauty with an edge of anguish -- an argument to keep walking. A beautiful short read.

We staged a reading of this at the Palm Beach Dramaworks Perlberg Festival of New Plays and -- two years later -- I'm still thinking about it. This is definitely NOT a parallel to Arthur Lobel, who wrote the Frog and Toad books (ahem, it is).
This is a lovely, deft three-hander, incredibly actable, that anyone with a small theater should be looking at staging!!!

Lisa Dillman is a hell of a writer -- sensitive, funny, with a knack for capturing how real people think, talk, love. I love this play for its salty wit, and for the beautifully drawn family relationships.

This is the darkest-funniest play (or the funniest-darkest) play I've encountered in quite some time. What's crazy is how utterly realistic the insanity of this play feels.

This is a bold play that comes out swinging, not for the faint of heart, but a fast, scary, funny read. I'd love to see it staged.

I was really charmed by these characters, and the slow unfolding of their relationships. Is it fair to say that this feels like a gentle play? Turner's handling of the relationships is deft, and her affection for these characters apparent. A sweet, specific world, with representation we don't always get to see...in a moment when a lot of plays feel very "in your face," this is a play that quietly gets into your heart.

Such a heartfelt, beautiful play about love and family and how to find safety in a world that feels unsafe. A kind of grounded sci-fi, with just enough weirdness to be its own kind of magic. It's super-stageable -- I would love, love love to see this play in the hands of great actors.

Yes, yes, YES to this play!!! Norton's got SUCH a specific, terrific, funny, loving voice and it's on full display here, with characters I can't get enough of. Oh, I'm so mad I'm only reading it and can't WAIT to see the damned (Blessed? Probably Blessed) thing on stage.

Pennycook notes that the play should be performed like it's a speeding train and that's what the play feels like...if a speeding train were heart-wrenchingly on-point about relationships and love and the passage of time and the fragility of the body and the beauty of finding your person and making a whole messy, fucked-up, imperfectly wonderful life with them.

It moves, and it's moving.

A fascinating "what if" that tackles AI, family ties, the challenges of friendship, loneliness, isolation, and community. I read this play with a group who have grandchildren the same age as most of these characters and they LOVED it an identified with the characters! A great play with the potential audience of multiple generations.

A really moving play, about the pull between your own needs and the needs of your family. Both culturally specific and totally universal, this is a deeply felt family play. Lovely work.