Recommended by Shaun Leisher

This play was a complete punch to the gut. The way this play looks at female friendship through the lenses of class and economic privilege is so fascinating. It makes us long for those relationships that drifted away and regret the ones that we might have made a mess of. It's about what we sacrifice for those we love even if that means using others. This play is so nuanced and the characters are so complex that it will stick with you for a long time after seeing it.

I really enjoyed reading this play and how it explores the way feminism has always profited off of. It really leaves you thinking how we are all complicit in this messed up cycle. Also very excited that it's a large cast for women and centers the stories of women of color and queer women. Can't wait to see this play produced.

This is such a refreshing and wild play that I hope gets produced all over. An experimental look at our culture's current obsession with shows like The Bachelor and the timeless obsession with only seeing our lives in comparison to others. It's a pressure so many relate to but really one that haunts women and I'm glad that Sarah Einspanier is giving voice to that in such a funny and heartbreaking way.

This is such a unique take on the workplace comedy that perfectly captures how one must find joy in seemingly little things to survive a soul sucking job. The dialogue and cast of characters are delightful.
Einspanier includes the perfect blend of existential dread and absurd comedy that will make you laugh at the foreignness and cry in recognition.

Writing art that captures the early 2000s is no easy feat but McCarthy does it. The iPhone is just on the horizon and about to change everything, including how we deal with people and our own self-care. I loved this look at the faux earnestness of corporate/retail culture soooooo much. This play does not go places you expect it to and only gives the audience just the information it needs. These characters are wonderfully crafted and I really hope to see actors inhabit them on stage very soon.

This play is beautifully crafted in the way it provides the audience with brief snapshots as a mother and daughter deal with a death of a husband and father in very different and destructive ways. Folks are going to have many questions throughout this play but I'm so glad the writer doesn't answer them and instead lets these characters just be their messy selves.

This play is a super smart blending of guided history lesson, exploration into folklore and quest to get one's family history "right." This play goes to some pretty fantastical places but I never felt lost due to Izumi's steady authorial hand. This play was such a joy to read. It's deeply funny while exploring some really sad and heartbreaking issues.

I love plays like this that leave you really moved but not totally sure what exactly happened. This play is creepy to the max and the possibilities are endless for directors, actors and designers in terms of capturing the atmosphere spelled out on the page. Like all great horror this play is about real fears that all humans deal with. In this play those fears are death and living a purposeless existence and McVay explores them in really unique ways with these rich characters. PRODUCE THIS PLAY!!!

Love this play and it's bad ass female hero. Want to see more work that explores folklore of non-white cultures like this.

Yes!!! Yes!!! Yes!!! I am obsessed with plays that adapt well know stories, plays about art and plays about memory. This play is all those things I love in one. PRODUCE THIS PLAY!!!!