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Prescient and chilling, this short play strikes at the heart of women's inequality, pointing to the incongruous bends in reality that seem to shape our inclusion, the acceptance of our contributions, even the idea of us, as completely human, rather than the sum of our parts. Husczca writes with sensitivity and boldness, bringing light to a woman's experience, one growing more fearful, more humiliating, by the day.

A delightful historical romp! Like Monty Python meets the History Channel - What fun characters, and cracking dialogue. Yancey's imaginative set-up finds us out on Bosworth Field - the declarative WIN for Lancaster over York, duh - in this all-too-relevant satire. Thank you to this bold author for stuffing a short play with tons of characters! It's hilarious, with all the farcical strings pulling in criss-crossing dimensions. You can say a ten-minute play can only have 2-3 characters, but then you wouldn't have this epically hilarious gem! No wonder it was recently selected for a competitive festival. It's a hoot.

A stunning play, populated with compelling characters, and a story that rushes in and out of present, past and future, with tremendous joy and sorrow. There's something in the construction that immediately pulls you in, holding your imagination, the writing taking great care and yet making bold choices. This play is just unforgettable.

Just lovely! Huang creates such a grounded, tactile sense of place in this taut, yet lyrical piece. I love that I found myself really leaning into the dialogue, asking questions, immediately investing in this world and wanting to know more about it. Two finely-crafted characters at a moment in time both immediate and ethereal. I would so love to see this onstage!

Um, this is wonderful — What a refreshing drink of water this wacky play by Carbajal is! There's something so fun about the language play, sourced verbatim from Craigslist, that raw, and often powerful space, where deals are won or lost, where connections are made, or maybe we miss out. (I once tried to sell an old Volvo on Craigslist, but when someone came to take a look at it, it was full of wasps. That is another play.) I admire so much the way this writer plays with the form, and would love to see this produced. What fun!

Absolutely stunning. Celestial and cellular — A play that dances across time and space, drawing our hearts and minds on such a gentle, elegant journey. To say that Hageman's lyrical poetry shines would be a huge understatement. This is language at once lyrical and full of emotion, a piece of theatre unique to itself, yet ageless and beautiful. Brava!

Layers of complication bring the listener closer in on every page, in this fascinating play. What happens - when a human cannonball and a human arrow - happen to meet? Kaplan digs down into meaning, asking us for definitions, of our moment, its "brand" - looking at the expectations we maintain, and have maintained, for women, through a refreshing new lens. There's so much here to explore, and Kaplan makes it look easy.

This is both lovely and heartbreaking. O'Neill explores this lush space, an intersection between nostalgia and future-longing. There's a spare, relatable quality to the language, as if these two Mars rovers are an old couple on a park bench. What if what we make, what we do, what if our interdependence isn't enough? A moving, and extremely human, play about robots.

A zany delight! Allen stacks the decks and then lets everything fall in this breathless comedy. Banter abounds as fires erupt faster than anyone could tamp them out - in this slice of what-could-go-wrong-probably-does life. I'm sure that creative teams will have a ball extracting this script for all its comic moments, broad and physical, and cerebral, even philosophical. Don't discount the subtext. Allen says a lot, using humor. And she makes it look easy.

A gem of a comedy about sexism in the tech industry (which we ALL know is. a thing) with top ramen. Punchy dialogue and a great set-up underscores the gravity of this conversation, that is just so believably unbelievable. Calandrino gets at the heart of dysfunctional workplace culture, with an H that stands for Humor and Hostility.