Recommended by Emily Hageman

I was lucky enough to see a recording of this play being performed at the Heartland Ten-Minute Play Festival, and I do mean LUCKY. This play is absolutely HILARIOUS! Perfect, zinging dialogue, HILARIOUSLY weird and delightful premise--truly an actor's, director's, designer's, and AUDIENCE'S dream comedy. I cannot believe how perfectly this play is crafted. Pure delight from the beginning to it's perfect end (one of the best comedy ends I've ever read). A true show-stopper guaranteed to make you bust a gut.

This is a phenomenal play. I cannot recommend it enough. It's impossible to stop reading it once you start. One of the most unique structures I've ever seen leads us to a daring, brilliant, engaging storyline full of characters that you love within only a few pages of reading about them. The "laugh light" is one of the neatest devices I've ever encountered in a play. Read this now, or better yet, get it on stage where it belongs so it can be seen by every single person. This is about as perfect as a play can get.

Austgen's voice is witty and sharp and this ten-minute play is perfectly crafted, just like the crafty scheme of one of the coworkers. This play is a great example of human comedy--giving us three very real people to, at different times, root for and boo and cheer and groan. People are funny--but Austgen treats them and all their confusion with love and compassion.

Beautiful, lyrical piece with a fantastic structure. Hernandez writes his stage directions as poems, and his dialogue is about as real as it gets. This play is vivid and jumps right off the page. A really lovely read--and it would be pure joy to watch this performed. A gorgeous and sweet celebration of connection and love where we don't expect it.

I adore the way Haas writes sisters. They have such a deep, natural relationship--and Beth and Letia are polar opposites. I love how Mom's urn is an odd third character. I couldn't stop smiling as I read this play--it's silly and crazy and ridiculous, but it's tender and heartfelt and a little spooky. Two actresses would love this hilarious ten minute play--and audiences would connect too.

A truly beautiful play. A seamless story about a very unique girl and all the people she encounters on her adventure. Leela is a fantastic character--a character who is disabled, but the whole play isn't ABOUT her disability. It's vivid and lovely and full of pure wonder--like a modern Alice in Wonderland. Very beautiful play that is begging to be staged.

Just remarkable. Henry has such a gift for making you feel in such a short amount of time. The writing here is poetic and beautiful and profoundly sad. Every line is sweet with poignancy and a melancholy tenderness. This is a heartbreaker of a play and well-worth a read. An excellently crafted ten minute play.

This play is one of the best I've read on NPX. It's more than deserving of its awards. In fact, it needs more awards. Lots more awards--all of them. It is funny and tense and realistic and absolutely terrifying and timely and the structure is so perfect and I don't think I'll ever stop thinking about this play. I feel like I just took a masterclass. Expect to see Stephanie Alison Walker's name a LOT more with writing like this. Read this play immediately and then produce it with your best actors, best designers, and best director.

An extremely cute ten minute play with a very clever idea. This play is clearly a crowd pleaser, even just reading it. Brings up some GREAT points about its source material and works fantastically as parody. Great roles for actors and a director would have a lot of fun with this--not to mention figuring out how to make a girl blue! Hilarious one-liners and funny banter with a surprisingly poignant monologue in the middle. Well done, Hayet!

A truly great funny, meaningful, tight ten-minute play. A fantastic character study achieved in such a short period of time. We only know Ruth and Donna for ten minutes, but we know everything about them. A hilarious, but deeply sad story about two people mired with resentment and unfulfilled dreams. Great title, poignant, fun, and about as perfect as you can get in a two-hander.