Recommended by Lee R. Lawing

One of the most original plays I've read here on NPX and an out-and-out classic! Love the going back in time and the ending is a shocker that is very well earned. Triplett's writing perfectly captures three very real people in a very real small town and we've all been in those towns just like Bloody Dick Creek and know the score of them, but his play is such a fresh take that it took my breath away by the time I finished reading. Will be adding other plays by this playwright for the future!

The thing I love about Gonzalez's work is that so many times the conversations are ones I've had either in real life or in my pretend mind with other people and he captures the heartache and beauty of relationships here in the oh so beautiful What Love Must Be! As writers I know we already dig a little deeper in emotions than a lot of people and it's the same with Gonzalez's plays--they make me think about those conversations all over again and be glad in their memory. Maybe that's what love is in the end for a writer.

We all do those things we feel like need to be done in order to the things we really want to do and when it comes to being in a relationship there's always the give and take of keeping up your half of the household before you can really just do those things you want to do privately or for yourself. Wyndham's husband is as funny as he is sad, but so easily relatable to most of us. If I could only borrow him to clean out the cat box for me next time I want to write. . .

Great revenge play and funny to boot. Partain captures this very real moment so eloquently with such humor that this reader was bummed that it was only ten minutes! Perfect piece for any short play festival.

Such a great play. Beautifully constructed with such heart-breaking language and all from fish. This play inspires as much as it teaches and would be a great addition at any short play festival.

Such a beautiful tale brought to poetic life. The tale is new to me so I'm in awe of it and that discovery, but more than that I'm in awe of the elegant writing of Lam. Thank you for sharing this on NPX!

This is a true horror classic and so well written. I was immediately drawn into the story and held my breath until the very spine-tingling ending! A tale of terror indeed!

Such a great monologue! It brings back that awe that we all have in high school at discovering those things that excite us or inspire us. For me it was actually Bette Davis and I did my 12th grade term paper on her career so I love Vamping for bringing back those memories of a time when I was so eager to read as much as I could about the old film world and which carried my love of those movies forward to this day. Thank you Burbano for a great monologue!

What a delight to watch this play on YouTube. Thanks first for sharing this production on NPX so that we can all see it. Vampires, dating apps, dildos. The mix is dramatic and comedic and sweet to see live, but what makes this play sing is the writing by Hovanesian which I've grown to admire and be inspired by with each and every piece. He brings to the stage a new voice that's exciting and fresh and to every writer out there, add one (if not all!) of his plays to your reading list today!! You won't be disappointed.

Being a Christie fan for life I was drawn immediately to the title but then upon reading the play found a heartbreaking account of an imagined conversation between Agatha and Archie that is so painfully real that it just jumped off the page with a sucker punch to the gut. We all know how solitary the writer's life can be and O'Grady calls attention to this fact with such realism that it made me look over my shoulder at my own life and the Archies who were standing there waiting for something other than a pen for dinner.