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Donald E. Baker

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  • LOST SOLE by Craig Houk
    1 May. 2024
    “ When estate lawyer Greer shows up at widow Francine's barricaded door, she finds the house and grounds badly neglected and Francine herself answering questions with non-sequiturs and seemingly without a sense of the passage of time. Does she have dementia, or what? Houk plays with our expectations and keeps Greer--and the reader--off balance until he reveals what's happened to Francine in a final OMG ending. Breathtaking work. ”
  • space fanatics by Ian Donley
    18 Apr. 2024
    “ Take a farce, heighten the absurdity, and merge it with a soap opera, and you have Ian Donley's "Space Fanatics." By the time the superb full-circle final scene occurs, the play has kept the audience off balance with wild twists and turns, hilarious wordplay, and ever-changing relationships among the characters. It's an imaginative concept entertainingly realized. ”
  • Frozen: A Monologue by Debra A. Cole
    13 Apr. 2024
    “ The person in this monologue was well into adulthood before they discovered they had ADHD and realized why they did some of the things they did. As someone who was fifty years old before he was diagnosed with ADHD, I totally understand. Debra A. Cole is so good at getting at what makes people tick. This piece is just one more illustration of that talent. ”
  • BALL AND CHAIN a monologue by D. Lee Miller
    9 Apr. 2024
    “ A wonderful short work in which euphoria, regret, betrayal, and determination all make an appearance. I'll never forget one of the saddest sentences I've ever read: "I let him marry the wrong me." Grandmother comes fully alive in this most effective monologue for an older actor. ”
  • 18,936 Steps (A Monologue) by Rachel Feeny-Williams
    8 Apr. 2024
    “ 18,936 steps translates into 8.47 miles, the length Amelia walks around town as she waits for news whether her partner has survived his cancer surgery. No news can't possibly be good news, can it, so she naturally fears the worse. The tension heightens as the time passes ever so slowly. The emotions of that helpless, interminable waiting, will be familiar to a great many people. Another powerful work by Rachel Feeny-Williams. ”
  • Wait - A monologue by Rene Zabel
    8 Apr. 2024
    “ When I heard the playwright's heartfelt reading of this monologue, I was blown away by the amount of emotion packed into such a small space. What parent hasn't wanted to slow time down to be able to savor each moment of their child's development? ”
  • A GUST OF WIND (a two minute monologue) by Marj O'Neill-Butler
    8 Apr. 2024
    “ I heard the playwright herself read "A Gust of Wind," and I was on the verge of tears listening to "Kathy" work her way through her grief and her future prospects. It's a short but powerful piece that many people would be able to relate to. ”
  • Heartburn by Daniel Prillaman
    4 Feb. 2024
    “ In this gem of medical horror writing, Prillaman has distilled all the nervousness one might feel surrounding a visit to the doctor--all the anxiety and the fear and the apprehension-- into as unsettling a play as you'll ever find. When at my own next appointment, the doctor asks why my blood pressure is so high, I'll tell her it's "just a little Heartburn." ”
  • Magna Mora by Brian Cern
    1 Feb. 2024
    “ There are those who believe that every decision an individual makes changes the whole world. Chris finds out that all those individual decisions have produced cosmic gridlock and the world cannot move on until he makes one of the two (or three?) choices presented to him. Which does he choose? Brian Cern has produced a tense, intriguing, funny, memorable, mystical play with an ending guaranteed to leave you gasping. ”
  • The Old Railroad by Scott Sickles
    26 Jan. 2024
    “ A heartwarming little play about how sibling relationships both change and stay the same as time goes by, and how holiday traditions are handed down even after those who originated them have passed on. One minute to read, a lifetime to remember. ”

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