Recommended by Paul Smith

Cole Hunter Dzubak offers up an absolute winner of a monologue here - damn, wish I had written it!!! A simple question creates a wonderful look at something you cannot (and maybe shouldn't) plan and here the writer uses historical examples and wit to tell a story which has great depth - and I bet it will get you thinking about your own last words!! Fantastic!

Christine Foster creates the most wonderful scenario in ten minutes with a story which could be played over two hours on stage on many years in real life. The build up, the climax and the conclusion are perfectly balanced to arrive at a play which is both comic and touching and which is packaged with precision and care. A cracking piece.

I have yet to discover the secret behind writing an effective piece of writing lasting just a minute or so; I need to take a lesson from Christopher Plumbridge in this many layered and three dimensional piece. It is exquisite in what is said and what is left to the imagination, though I yearn to know more about this character and the pull that draws him back to where he came from... beautiful, mysterious with an aching romantic undertone.

Even the thought of isolation lasting 6,745 days makes me feel claustrophobic; the description of what Gerald has missed over the years is invigorating and inspiring and then Neil Radtke pulls the rabbit out of the hat with a most wonderful sting in the tail. Cracking stuff.

Heavens above - the most effective 1 minute play I have ever come across. Neil Ratke slaps you across the face and thumps you in the stomach almost at the same time. A huge achievement,

The whole idea of Axe Throwing and Beer just makes me laugh immediately and with his innate talent to write of the unusual, Lee Lawing has built a thoroughly engaging play about competitiveness and relationships. Staging the play could be a great challenge - especially with the audience being the target! Huge fun.

To read a Morey Norkin play is to be entertained by the unconventional, the inventive and the hugely entertaining. The scenario is something which may not be too far in the future; but the innate relationship which builds between the passenger and attendant may not be ready for a few years - but it is so well realised that you shouldn't be too sure!!!! Wonderful!

Rachel Feeny-WIlliams may well be in autobiographical mode here - though in doing so she speaks volumes to many writers. Where do ideas come from and why do they arrive at unexpected moments and why aren't they there when you want them? A wonderful evocation of the frustration of an artist! Cracking stuff.

Charles Scott Jones has created a quirky delight of a play with so much warmth in it to melt the iciest hearts. With clever wordplay this is such fun that anyone and everyone can be entertained by it. Off the wall, unique and wonderfully seasonal - at any time of year.

This is very funny indeed. John Kelly tells a wonderfully bonkers story with some blisteringly funny lines while at the same time making some lovely observations about sex, sexuality and relationships. I can't help but think there is a longer play aching to be written here John! This is huge fun!