Recommended by Rachael Carnes

This open-ended absurdist play is a delight! A kind of high-wire act for a creative team, with plenty of room for physical interpretation. I love this kind of work, for its lush theatricality, the sense that the actors get to bring to it. Visualizing the story, imagining the audience member, I see the magic of Jovanovich's narrative come to life. There's a lot of rewarding possibilities here, and the piece is an exciting reminder that plays can be playful.

Deftly funny dialogue masks a play about so much more than laughs. Here are three women, three athletes, who've dedicated everything to develop their prowess, but for what? What's left, when they take off their skates? A powerful look at the way corrosive competition creeps into women's conversation, and into the fabric of our lives. This piece is a gem, and would be a delight on any festival stage. I can see the sequins, and they are glorious.

There's a beautiful restraint and delicacy to the way this play unfolds. It takes you into its world with Rinkel's appealing, relatable dialogue, and then takes a passage into such a poignant, mournful place. Those we lose when we're young, or who we know never got to experience life beyond their own youth - they stay with us, and Rinkel digs with such depth into that dynamic, with honesty and theatricality. There's a lot happening here, yet it glides on the page and as I'm sure it would in production, a portrait of possibility cut too short. Just lovely.

It’s so fun to explore the idea of the world of the play, a non-descript chicken wings restaurant, as a place of “succor and safety” – a hermitage of learning, with sage denizens and philosophical teaching moments. And it's lovely that the people who are here to teach in this world, can be a teenage girl with a minimum wage food service job and a mature woman. Who are we to the exterior community? Who are we to ourselves? With its bright energy throughout and unflagging comedy, this play would be a treat to see onstage.

Awwwwww wonderful! When I read a play by Lawing, I'm always impressed with the depth of his characters and the weird/cool/unusual circumstances he puts them in. They're creative, engaging, and always - this play's a great example - so accessible. I love the build of this ten-minute play, and its twist, is just so satisfying. What a delight!

Simply adorable! Funny and fresh and *perfect* for festivals or scene study. Trevor! Trevor the Vampire needs a full-length, stat. Bravo!

A fascinating vision that feels eerily prescient: What if we came to burning books, how would that feel, to the ones tasked with their destruction? Osmundsen asks hard questions, within a comedic lightness - that's the genius and the heartbreak of this play - that the moment of loss is lived by these genuinely warm, funny people. A compelling, terrifying world, beautifully constructed and carried to conclusion.

With her penchant for combining the rawest, most tender of feeling, with delicate, understated poetry, Hageman takes the form -- a one-minute play -- and makes it all her own. A beautiful piece.

A stunning piece, bringing energy and light into a heartbreaking moment. Chikazunga's dialogue feels so utterly natural, with pacing and reveal that doles out the perfect drip of pain and empathy - We're just right with these characters, as their traumas unfold. A beautiful play, about a tough subject, with multidimensional roles for women and layers of subtext to discover. So well done.

A loopy noir charmer! It had me at the title - And Bicknell's delightful banter just kept me chortling along. There's a comfort to the zany repartee, something so irresistible in the 40's vibe. Unexpected surprises abound in this screwball delight that would be sooooo much fun to produce. I was already costuming it in my head. (I'm gonna need a big F/X budget to make the entire show grayscale like an old movie... It's my creative vision!!) Fun stuff.