Recommended by Scott Sickles

  • Scott Sickles: FAWZIE: A HOTEL CHAMBERMAID MONOLOGUE by Asher Wyndham
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    What appears to be a panicked rant is a deceptively well-structured and powerful narrative about oppression-triggered trauma. While cleaning a hotel room rented by members a Neo-Nazi conference, Fawzie discovers a disturbing artifact. The fear and eruption of word it inspires comes from a terror as global and historic as it is intimate. A tour de force for the actor. Bravo!

    What appears to be a panicked rant is a deceptively well-structured and powerful narrative about oppression-triggered trauma. While cleaning a hotel room rented by members a Neo-Nazi conference, Fawzie discovers a disturbing artifact. The fear and eruption of word it inspires comes from a terror as global and historic as it is intimate. A tour de force for the actor. Bravo!

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  • Scott Sickles: LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI by Philip Hall
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    When I was artistic director of WorkShop Theater Company, I had the honor of producing this piece not once, but twice! (Both amateur developmental productions so by all means, professional theaters, you may have the World Premiere!)
    LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPI IS A GEM!
    The adaptation of Twain's memoir is tight and moving. The music is indelible. Several songs will stay with me forever.
    I wish we'd had the vision to cast women in the gender-neutral roles. Maybe you will.
    This musical deserves a great long life.

    When I was artistic director of WorkShop Theater Company, I had the honor of producing this piece not once, but twice! (Both amateur developmental productions so by all means, professional theaters, you may have the World Premiere!)
    LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPI IS A GEM!
    The adaptation of Twain's memoir is tight and moving. The music is indelible. Several songs will stay with me forever.
    I wish we'd had the vision to cast women in the gender-neutral roles. Maybe you will.
    This musical deserves a great long life.

    ”
  • Scott Sickles: English Only by Bryan Stubbles
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    A dark, satirical look at the hypocrisy of the "make English the official language" stance, ENGLISH ONLY is funny and terrifying, both in its depiction of the prejudice multi-lingual people would face in such a dystopia and in the brutality of the fight against that oppression. All in under 8 pages! Stirring!

    A dark, satirical look at the hypocrisy of the "make English the official language" stance, ENGLISH ONLY is funny and terrifying, both in its depiction of the prejudice multi-lingual people would face in such a dystopia and in the brutality of the fight against that oppression. All in under 8 pages! Stirring!

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  • Scott Sickles: SLEEPYHEAD: A 2-Minute Monologue Play by Asher Wyndham
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    A fun and funny monologue for deft physical and vocal comedians. Lots of ways to play it. Definitely something "creative personalities," insomniacs and the easily distracted can relate to.

    A fun and funny monologue for deft physical and vocal comedians. Lots of ways to play it. Definitely something "creative personalities," insomniacs and the easily distracted can relate to.

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  • Scott Sickles: Enter Bruce, Dragging His Mother-in-Law's Body by Matthew Weaver
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    Dark, funny and disturbing in the best ways. An intimate and concise look at what people who love each other do for each other and what values and expectations we instill in the people we educate and raise. Utterly compelling.

    Dark, funny and disturbing in the best ways. An intimate and concise look at what people who love each other do for each other and what values and expectations we instill in the people we educate and raise. Utterly compelling.

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  • Scott Sickles: Marian or The True Tale of Robin Hood by Adam Szymkowicz
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    What a romp! So much fun, one imagines the people who originally thought up the legend of Robin Hood are kicking themselves for not doing it this way in the first place! The relationships are heartfelt and the opportunities for creative staging are endless. A hoot!

    What a romp! So much fun, one imagines the people who originally thought up the legend of Robin Hood are kicking themselves for not doing it this way in the first place! The relationships are heartfelt and the opportunities for creative staging are endless. A hoot!

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  • Scott Sickles: A Touch of Cinema by Duncan Pflaster
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    Hilarious, elegant, relentlessly artsy and utterly grounded at the same time, A TOUCH OF CINEMA examines America's dangerous flirtation with nationalism by giving it a decidedly foreign feel. It's a play set at a cocktail party with characters you'd actually want to be at a cocktail party with! Banter becomes a mask for danger and this seeming bubble of safety feels like it could burst at any moment. As powerful as it is delightful.

    Hilarious, elegant, relentlessly artsy and utterly grounded at the same time, A TOUCH OF CINEMA examines America's dangerous flirtation with nationalism by giving it a decidedly foreign feel. It's a play set at a cocktail party with characters you'd actually want to be at a cocktail party with! Banter becomes a mask for danger and this seeming bubble of safety feels like it could burst at any moment. As powerful as it is delightful.

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  • Scott Sickles: Animals Commit Suicide by C. Julian Jiménez
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    Sexy, harrowing, intelligent, heartfelt and complex, ANIMALS COMMIT SUICIDE takes an intimate and unflinching look at why people make self-destructive choices that fly in the face of reason. A deep dive into the intimacy of personal pain, human connection, and why we need what we need even if the world doesn't understand, this play is damn near perfect!

    Sexy, harrowing, intelligent, heartfelt and complex, ANIMALS COMMIT SUICIDE takes an intimate and unflinching look at why people make self-destructive choices that fly in the face of reason. A deep dive into the intimacy of personal pain, human connection, and why we need what we need even if the world doesn't understand, this play is damn near perfect!

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  • Scott Sickles: NELL DASH, The Gruesomely Merry Adventures Of An Irrepressibly Sensible Capitalist With A Vengeance by Doug DeVita
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    It's like TOM JONES on acid!!!

    A shameless romp filled with literary mashups, diabolical intrigue, and inspired silliness, it's as though a deranged madman took an English lit syllabus hostage and had his way with it!

    It's like TOM JONES on acid!!!

    A shameless romp filled with literary mashups, diabolical intrigue, and inspired silliness, it's as though a deranged madman took an English lit syllabus hostage and had his way with it!

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  • Scott Sickles: Rust On Bone by Bianca Sams
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    Powerful, complex, intense, and thought provoking, Rust on Bone uses its protagonist's method of immersive trauma counseling to take the audience through the subjective experiences of its characters' PTSD in this study of fear, race, and the subjectivity of truth. Whose memory can we trust? Can we trust our own? At what point are we safe from the experiences that nearly kill us? Are we ever? A haunting piece.

    Powerful, complex, intense, and thought provoking, Rust on Bone uses its protagonist's method of immersive trauma counseling to take the audience through the subjective experiences of its characters' PTSD in this study of fear, race, and the subjectivity of truth. Whose memory can we trust? Can we trust our own? At what point are we safe from the experiences that nearly kill us? Are we ever? A haunting piece.

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