Recommended by Emily C. A. Snyder

I love that this exists! I'm not sure it's PLAYABLE(?) but I sure would love to know if it is! Thank you, D. T. Burns. (And someone give this a zoom reading, STAT!)

A partner to the other "One Job Thou Hadst," this one looks at the friar who missed telling Romeo about Juliet's *pretend* death. Haunted by this line: "A scurvy youth, word was/He'd even killed a man." The voice of Friar Giovanni is excellent (although I would suggest that the anachronistic spellings are sometimes unnecessary). Regardless, Hansen's control of language and character is excellent.

I love both of these "One Job Thou Hadst" monologues. I had never thought about the messenger who came to Lady Macduff, and what more they might have done. Excellent, excellent poetical monologue play.

I haven't laughed this hard in a while. Brilliant look at religion, death, and philosophy, with a joke that will forever decontextualize the name "Kevin." (Read it. Just read it. Thank me later.)

This beautiful scene has completely transformed how I read the character and relation of Hal and Poins. Beautiful.

Where did Ophelia's mad scene come from? That's the crux of this short play in iambic pentameter - one of the premiere verse dramatists of our time!

What an adorable, hopeful (and eek, all-too-relatable) short play, about facing the Questing Beast of Executive Dysfunction. Pflaster is an absolute *master* of blending contemporary and epic language.

What an absolutely beautiful, metatheatrical gem! Bittersweet, hopeful, mature. Pflaster reflects how art helps the artists see themselves and each other, even through the glass of letting go and starting again.

This is just a stunning piece of text to LOOK at. Anyone interested in experimental verse drama and Greek mythology should definitely check this piece out.

Really lovely short play about the Pandora myth. Davis manages to avoid the inherent misogyny of the play, instead pointing out HUMANITY'S curious nature. Would love to see how this might be staged, but also beautiful to read and imagine. Thank you!