Recommended by Katherine Gwynn

A tightly gorgeous and devastating play. Capodicasa has written a story that melds the horror of sci-fi body-snatchers pulp-fiction with the allure and mythology of a long forgotten folktale. But more than that, this is a play about a parents', and their children and the desperate actions we take to care for another person.

a lyrical yet taut exploration of grief, of the ways in which women are silenced, and of how we can be haunted by the places we make our home.

A new American fable about identity, names, and the ghosts that stay with us--a simply gorgeous and deeply moving play.

I saw a reading of this at Great Plains, and what seems to start as a sweet and playful world of surreal tenderness slowly falls apart as it begins to investigate the horrifying and unique violence that pulses in a cult. Matt dissects masculinity, sexuality, violence, and cycles of abuse, all the components that tend to forge cults; But in addition, in SPOTFW, he has a crafted a uniquely gripping--and terrifying--structure that exposes the power words have to shape us while his beautiful language washes over us. It's a play that could only be a play--the best kind of play.

I directed this play for a festival in Kansas City, and was drawn in from the first page. Adams exposes both the white supremacy historically underlying many of the well-known white suffragettes in history, and how this pattern repeats itself in 'feminist' activism all too often today. An incisive and taut 10 minute that isn't afraid to let the audience sit in discomfort.

Viper is a striking examination into how the Victorian constrictions of gender and motherhood are all too familiar, and reverberates powerfully making the audience consider the ways we leave survivors of sexual assault, and their trauma, behind.