Recommended by Philip Middleton Williams

Mark Harvey Levine's imagination is wonderfully inventive, and his take on bugs meeting up and dealing with their time in the jar is both hilarious and insightful. I would love to see this one performed; the actors and the audience would have so much fun.

This is fun from beginning to end, and Mark Harvey Levine's light touch and breakneck pace will keep you and the audience with it for the whole ride.

Pithy and right (as well as write) on. And don't tell me you weren't thinking the exact some thing when you heard the line about King Lear.

A true love story -- in all senses of the words -- is not all roses and rainbows. This beautiful work has passion and joy, heartache and devastating disappointment that anyone ever in love will know and feel, and for those who are yet to be in love it is a story worth knowing because it makes clear that the highs and lows are so worth it. Scott Sickles tells of the life and love of novelist E.M. Forster in a way that rises to the level of Forster's works: powerful, delicate, and enduring.

The final installment of the Second World trilogy is the end... but it's also a hopeful and compelling story about the lives of characters we've come to love and care about. Yes, there's no doubt that the end is approaching, but not without a fight and passion for the past and the present and the overwhelming comfort of being in the arms -- real and virtual -- of those we have loved for so long. A masterful end to a saga that needs to be shared and loved.

It's a shame "Surrounded" missed the Quarantine Bake-Off Round 2 deadline, but this little romp -- or should I say turkey-trot -- is a worthy addition to any one-minute monologue festival.

The world is changing, and in Pangea, the boys we followed in Marianas Trench are grown and dealing with the world... from one end of it. This reunion/first meeting is heartfelt and powerful for both the growth of them over the years and also for the world they're trying to save. The love and affection and tenderness that we hoped for is there, as is the intense feeling of being on the edge of a cliff.

The term "dystopian" harks to a dark and oppressive future, but while that may be what Scott Sickles had in mind when he wrote this first part of the Second World Trilogy, it shimmers, albeit dimly, with hope. Yes, it's a world of darkness and foreboding, but the characters live in their dreams and promises of freedom, of personal triumph over the oppression, both real and self-imposed, and the strength of humanity carries it forward and out of the depths. Hope springs eternal...and it will rise up.

Short, sweet, defiant, and onward! Thanks! I needed that!

Scott Sickles has this amazing gift for writing characters and dialogue that just get right to me. I read Turtles and Bulldogs with a very powerful sense of deja vu: not because I've seen this play before, but because I know these people so well. And the beauty of his writing is that you don't have to be me to get it; there is something of all of us in these two men and their moment that will stay with you for a very long time and love the memory.