Recommended by Kyle Smith

  • Kyle Smith: Hard Cell by Donna Hoke
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    A priest desperate to save a soul, loses everything due to his faith. The layers underneath this encounter unfold outward in countless directions. This is a play I'll be thinking about for a while.

    A priest desperate to save a soul, loses everything due to his faith. The layers underneath this encounter unfold outward in countless directions. This is a play I'll be thinking about for a while.

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  • Kyle Smith: REQUIEM for GENOCIDE (short version) by Emma Goldman-Sherman
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    Provocative, painful, and powerful. This brilliantly theatrical play links genocide with genocide, forcing the audience to rethink previously held assumptions. Powerful political theater that needs to be seen.

    Provocative, painful, and powerful. This brilliantly theatrical play links genocide with genocide, forcing the audience to rethink previously held assumptions. Powerful political theater that needs to be seen.

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  • Kyle Smith: Isobel by Christopher Plumridge
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    Echoes of Of Mice and Men resound when reading Olly's monologue. Unlike Lenny, Olly does get the farm of his own, in a painful twist. Well done.

    Echoes of Of Mice and Men resound when reading Olly's monologue. Unlike Lenny, Olly does get the farm of his own, in a painful twist. Well done.

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  • Kyle Smith: Halloween Land, Inc. by Lee R. Lawing
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    A fun halloween script centering a couple of masks looking to be taken from their store before Halloween ends. Fun and funny with a twinge of existential horror. Lovely.

    A fun halloween script centering a couple of masks looking to be taken from their store before Halloween ends. Fun and funny with a twinge of existential horror. Lovely.

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  • Kyle Smith: Places by Andrew Martineau
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    Wicked clever writing from Martineau leads to twist after twist after twist. By the end I wasn’t sure what I knew, but I know I loved the journey.

    Wicked clever writing from Martineau leads to twist after twist after twist. By the end I wasn’t sure what I knew, but I know I loved the journey.

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  • Kyle Smith: Winner by Amy Berryman
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    A stirring portrait of something not only BIPOC theatre makers, but also women, LGBTQ, and disabled writers hear over and over again from cis white male theatre makers. “It’s the climate” says Charlie Harvard. Those words make me want to wretch, and Berryman has done an admirable job airing Harvards grievances, so when Walker hits back, he feels it. Well done.

    A stirring portrait of something not only BIPOC theatre makers, but also women, LGBTQ, and disabled writers hear over and over again from cis white male theatre makers. “It’s the climate” says Charlie Harvard. Those words make me want to wretch, and Berryman has done an admirable job airing Harvards grievances, so when Walker hits back, he feels it. Well done.

    ”
  • Kyle Smith: A Day in the Life of a Former Zombie by DC Cathro
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    A fascinating complicated scenario in which a man’s past performance comes to haunt him. This play raises interesting questions of what art can do, and the impact that comes when we say yes to a certain type of collaboration. You may not be the character you played, but you are the person who agreed to play them.

    A fascinating complicated scenario in which a man’s past performance comes to haunt him. This play raises interesting questions of what art can do, and the impact that comes when we say yes to a certain type of collaboration. You may not be the character you played, but you are the person who agreed to play them.

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  • Kyle Smith: FOR RICHARD, FOR POORER by Steven G. Martin
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    Wonderfully sweet and heartfelt, Martin has crafted a dynamic duo who come together perfectly for a laugh out loud pre wedding experience. Read while ready to laugh.

    Wonderfully sweet and heartfelt, Martin has crafted a dynamic duo who come together perfectly for a laugh out loud pre wedding experience. Read while ready to laugh.

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  • Kyle Smith: Swag (or Fucking Vigwan) by Kristoffer Diaz
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    Truly unhinged. This hilarious, outrageous, and completely depraved play is probably the reason obscenity laws still exist in the United States. If you have any sense of decency, do not read this play. But if you are as sick and twisted as Diaz, you will find bliss in these pages.

    Truly unhinged. This hilarious, outrageous, and completely depraved play is probably the reason obscenity laws still exist in the United States. If you have any sense of decency, do not read this play. But if you are as sick and twisted as Diaz, you will find bliss in these pages.

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  • Kyle Smith: Guinness by Amy Berryman
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    Grief and joy intermingle as two strangers are bound to San Francisco, one for a celebration of life and the other, for a funeral. This chance encounter reveals layers of emotions and humor as these strangers get to the heart of what brought them to the airport. A joyously emotional play.

    Grief and joy intermingle as two strangers are bound to San Francisco, one for a celebration of life and the other, for a funeral. This chance encounter reveals layers of emotions and humor as these strangers get to the heart of what brought them to the airport. A joyously emotional play.

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