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Steven G. Martin

Recommended by Steven G. Martin

  • Most Successful People by Gary Sunshine
    17 Jul. 2020
    “ Gary Sunshine's short comedy accurately and vigorously dramatizes teenagers' emotions. Especially those of overachieving, needy teens with an inferiority complex and a hell of a sense of entitlement.

    Every conflict is life-or-death, and long-term perspective doesn't exist. Everything is heightened, including desires (to feel sexy, to talk naughty) and -- much like when we look at our school yearbooks decades later to reminisce -- a lot of it is cringeworthy.

    "Most Successful People" is a lot of fun, quite painful and a gift to two strong actors. ”
  • The Greater and Lesser Edmunds of the World: a short play about bastards and birthright by Scott Sickles
    17 Jul. 2020
    “ J'accuse!

    Scott C. Sickles has lifted tabloid-TV-torn, shock value, manipulative, confrontational, domestic drama schlock into pure comedic art. I will never be satisfied with straightforward domestic melodramas again.

    "The Greater and Lesser Edmunds of the World" is filled with pithy banter, delicious character-based speeches, and over-the-top emotions; twists, turns, and power plays; and fully emotive characters that male actors would love to play.

    This is emotionally satisfying high comedy that an audience will love. I know I loved a broadcast reading of this one-act play that was performed to the hilt and highlighted its many strengths. ”
  • THE PANTHEON WARS: WISDOM IN WAR by Monica Cross
    16 Jul. 2020
    “ I love it. This 1-minute play runs afoul of so many "rules" about how to write plays and characters, what makes a good play or character, what theatre is and must be, etc. This play is chaos, just not the kind a person might expect. ”
  • THE PANTHEON WARS: WHAT'S IT GOOD FOR? by Monica Cross
    16 Jul. 2020
    “ Surprising and affecting. This 1-minute play provides nuanced shades of characterization for those who are violence-mongering, battlefield-bred, living embodiments of blood and destruction. ”
  • Eight Tales of Pedro by Mark-Eugene Garcia
    16 Jul. 2020
    “ "Eight Tales of Pedro" is a kaleidoscope. With each turn, the audience feels different emotions, often contrary to those they just felt.

    It is contemporary, but includes classic structure and content. It's filled with hardships and tragedy, but also humor and hope, and shows how telling stories forms a community out of strangers. There are tricksters and fools, but also people who have experienced adverse reality.

    This play is rich in depth, subtlety, and theatricality. It is heartbreaking, yet hopeful. I also enjoyed a YouTube video of its premiere production at Secret Theatre in Long Island City, New York. ”
  • Zoom Exposure by Lee R. Lawing
    14 Jul. 2020
    “ I don't care why a person invented what they invented; people will find a way to make it about sex.

    That's why I love Lawing's irreverent, sexy, all-gay short play about today's technology being used for jerk-off clubs. Save the noble speeches about technology for someone else ... we are a horny people!

    Oh, and the best line: "We are IT." Be careful: gay tech nerds are taking over the world one platform at a time! ”
  • To Fix a Dinosaur by Emma S. Rund
    14 Jul. 2020
    “ I guarantee audiences will audibly gasp watching Rund's brilliant 10-minute tragedy. I did when reading the script. Twice.

    Rund builds tension and discomfort in subtle, varied ways: a literal physical run-in; placing the scene in a small, confined location; evasions of direct questions; frenetic action in trying to rebuild what's been broken. And then comes the final two blows from the sledgehammer that will make people gasp. ”
  • Zoom Zoom by John Mabey
    12 Jul. 2020
    “ This short monologue is humane, grim, and honest.

    Mabey exposes the double-edged sword a lot people are facing during self-quarantining/physical distancing.

    This one-minute play already has a varied development and production history, which is well deserved. ”
  • All This Togetherness by Francesca Pazniokas
    12 Jul. 2020
    “ A brilliantly imagined and executed 10-minute play. It's a marvel.

    For all the rules that some people prescribe to making "A Good 10-Minute Play," Pazniokas brushes aside most of them in order to focus on what (I feel) is the most important: tell an emotional story -- with the highest possible emotional stakes -- well.

    Your audiences will be swept up by this play filled to bursting with characters, dialogue filled with straightforward information and implications, and such earnest emotions. ”
  • Sirens by Azure D Osborne-Lee
    9 Jul. 2020
    “ "Sirens" is a tart twist on mythology, as Lee provides a new perspective to some classic characters in this one-minute play. A little dark, a lot of fun. ”

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