Recommended by Shaun Leisher

A beautiful look at the creative process and how the art we make so often reflects and bleeds into our lives. The way Mangan explores platonic relationships between artists is also fascinating.

Matt Barbot is a genius. The way he explores gender and the idea of subverting Shakespeare by subverting the use of meter knocked my socks off. Can’t wait to see actors tackle this delicious monologue!!

I feel like this is a play that when the plot is read many would doubt the possibility of it being staged. Those people obviously aren’t familiar with Rachel Bublitz and her plays. She really knocks this one out of the park. It’s a war play that has the perfect blend of character development moments and action sequences. The decision to have the cast be airplanes through the configuration of bodies and the sound they make is brilliant. This is a true ensemble piece I can’t wait to see staged.

I adore the magic of this play and it so well compliments the very real things the characters are going through. Langley beautifully captures the awkwardness of young love with as much respect as she does the very serious pressures they face. This is a play written for young people as a way of letting them know they are not alone in their struggles and I hope young actors all over get the opportunity to engage with this piece.

The time and place of this play is purposely ambiguous because it’s a story that can happen anywhere at any time. It’s a play about men and women that goes back even before biblical times. It’s about cycles of horror and what it will take to break them. These characters are beautifully written and ones that we need to see on stage today. This play doesn’t shy away from the torture women go through so you shouldn’t look away either. Face the horrors and work to end them.

This feels so much like a story passed down through generations. A horror story of a town separated from their loved ones by an evil government. Love how the playwright looks at the way we love both out of passion and necessity, how we remember those we lost and how those memories can be shattered when those we’ve lost are returned to us. Can’t wait to see what talented designers come up with in designing this world.

“It’s not about the face that launched a thousand ships. It’s about the tits that started a thousand wars.” An installation piece inspired by the Helen of Troy myth that looks at the roles that women are expected to fill. This piece is filled with visceral poetry and stage directions that will force an audience to confront their complicity in the harm done to women. This is a piece that doesn’t have to be performed in a theatre but I think it should be performed there and any venue where women have limiting expectations forced upon them.

There’s something delightfully Shakespearean about this short play and I’m all for it!!

The poetry and imagery of this play is astonishing. I have never seen the themes of domestic abuse and rape culture tackled in such a unique and compelling way and the way the idea of the male gaze is explored excites me so much. This play like all of Hill’s work will create important conversations as audiences seek answers to the questions she poses. This play gives no easy answers. Only difficult questions that need to be asked if we are to help those being harmed by evil forces like toxic masculinity.

This play absolutely took my breath away. It’s a domestic puzzle that doesn’t even get close to being solved until the very end. It’s a delight to follow all the threads and clues while also just letting these compelling characters expose themselves. Hill has created a play that is begging for artists to come and experiment. So many possibilities to interpret this work of art.