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Chas Belov

Recommended by Chas Belov

  • the fucking tent by reid tang
    11 Dec. 2019
    “ For a piece that is all in prose, it surely feels like poetry. Bittersweet, full of longing. The words make visions dance in my head. Fantastical images. This would be an amazing challenge for a set, sound, and lighting designer to create magical spaces. ”
  • An Appreciation by Steven G. Martin
    11 Dec. 2019
    “ I laughed in joy as I came to the unexpected ending, which the playwright totally set up in the beginning. A fun piece that makes imaginative use of the theatre space and is perfect for a proscenium stage or black box. ”
  • Pink Dust of Field Corn by Jessie Salsbury
    5 Aug. 2019
    “ This is breathtaking. This is shocking. This is intense. This is chilling. This would be a tour-de-force for an accomplished young actor on the effects of abuse. Jessie Salsbury says this is a work in progress and I already want to see it staged. Read it. ”
  • Circular by Laura Shamas
    24 Jun. 2019
    “ I saw this at Alter Theater in San Francisco. I can't imagine what it's like to serve in Afghanistan, but this gave me a taste. The play mixes Greek myth and modern warfare to show the experiences of service people overseas. It's intense, funny, and incredibly sad. Well worth seeing. ”
  • Ripped by Rachel Bublitz
    24 Jun. 2019
    “ I normally wouldn't bother to recommend a play that already has 25 recs. This play is so potentially frightening for theatres that I have to speak up and say, yes, it is precisely because this play is so frightening that it is so important, so now, and so necessary. Please, please consider this play. Rape is complicated. Memory is complicated. We still need to fight rape. We need to have this discussion. This play advances the discussion and does so sensitively and boldly. ”
  • Just in Case Texts by Claudia Haas
    21 May. 2019
    “ This one sinks in like a punch to the gut. A powerful play that is way too relevant to the present day - literally in the news *today*. A must-see. ”
  • FAMILY BY NUMBERS Award-winning 10-minute drama by Arianna Rose
    19 May. 2019
    “ I saw this in the Theatre Three Festival of One-Act Plays and loved it. It's a funny, touching, and sad play about family and unexpected loss. Extremely theatrical; would not work in another genre. ”
  • Blue Balls by Willie Johnson
    29 Apr. 2019
    “ This is intense, funny, and transgressive. No model-minority perfect victim here. Benoit is a wild role and Peter the perfect foil. ”
  • THE TRANSITION OF DOODLE PEQUEÑO by Gabriel Jason Dean
    31 Mar. 2019
    “ I just saw this at Teatro Vision in San Jose and can recommend it for its sensitive treatment of gender identity and the harmful effects of peer pressure through showing and not lecturing. Heartbreaking and ultimately heartwarming, with no shortage of humor. ”
  • Interlude by John Michael Duggan
    24 Feb. 2019
    “ Fully captures the depth of conversations we imagine in our heads and the alternate choices we imagine making from our pasts. Fun, and the reveal is both heartbreaking and earned. ”

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