Recommended by Scott Sickles

Perfect! Just perfect! A lovely ten-minute pitch-black comedy with two wonderful roles for older actresses. It's full of delightful surprises and grounded in unshakeable kinship and love. I had the pleasure of seeing this at Greenhouse Ensemble in NYC and it was wonderful to revisit on the page!

One minute. One page. It still managed to hit me where I live and piss me off. A perfect snapshot of Evangelical pseudo-Christian hypocrisy in action. The magic in the economy of the writing comes in a smile... a smile that made me clench my fist. Strong storytelling in almost no time at all.

Matthew Weaver has clearly been reading the diary I don't actually keep and transcribing all the thoughts and feelings from my lonely heart into this tug of war between a man and his self esteem, a tug of war were both parties are pushing instead of pulling. The play in an honest and insightful delight for and about those who yearn without gumption. Just like my diary would be if I wrote it.

This is one of my favorite things that I have read in my life! I'm not even exaggerating.

Normally, I try to read pieces that don't have more than one or two recommendations, if any, but the description was irresistible, as is the play, especially if you read it aloud in your best Rick Moranis voice, which I did.

The concept is cute enough, but the execution is masterful. Lawings's soaring, almost unweildy vernacular is a heartfelt symphony of longing, love and regret, somehow even more beautiful than it is funny and it's hilarious!

Brutal. Brutal kind of the way Hannah Gadsby's Nanette is brutal, but in many ways angrier, more immediate, more "as I share what happened to me then, you will experience it now, Now, NOW, and you won't get to flinch either." It captures the raw honestly found in stand-up that emerges from our darkest, most painful experiences. Yet this is not a stand-up act; it is a solo play about a woman doing a stand-up act about the transformative experience of rape. It's an indictment. It's a mic drop. It's a dissection of soul.

Breathtakingly funny play about An Incident that occurs on Thanksgiving Eve. To say more about what happens would be a spoiler and this play deserves to surprise its audience. I will say that it does confront the ancient yet undying cultural divide over what is and is not "dressing." A must for any holiday play festival or really anytime you need a good comedy in your evening of plays.

Also, the characters can be played by any two adults. The potential combinations are dazzling!

Two middle aged farts are getting ready to go, I don't know, somewhere!!! But wherever it is, it’s important, people have expectations of them, they have expectations of themselves, and they cannot disappoint! A charming and funny motel room two-hander. It was impossible for me to read this without hearing Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau taking turns making the best of things, then bitching about them a moment later. A delight!

Dark, twisted, and filled wall-to-wall with unsettling truths. I might have thought the longevity and endurance of the abusive, even sadistic, friendship portrayed on stage might have been difficult to believe I didn't remember my own adolescence. Oh the people we've convinced ourselves we love and the things we let them do to us...

HONORS STUDENTS is a battle between the powers of darkness and light for one girl's soul. They don't know that's what's happening, which makes the goings-on all too real.

Gloriously meta! Wonderfully funny! Celebratory and self-deprecating but always charming. A total hoot!

I just read "Cast Size: 2-20." First of all: HAHAHAHA! Second: this would be a GREAT play to end an evening of short plays. Or even begin one! You could get the entire cast of the evening involved!

When done right, this play will make you hungry. Ravenously hungry. For MEAT!
It's also an honest, well-observed drama with two terrific roles for actors and a story that resonates. Hell, I saw it about two decades ago and it's still with me. And now I'm hungry again just thinking about it.