Recommended by Lee R. Lawing

If only I could have read about this Eve from the very start of my childhood--this Eve who questions everything and dares to question the will of God--I could have shaved off so many of those years that I spent looking for the answers that Eve's laying out so clearly in this brilliant monologue.

Saw this performed so beautifully on Back Porch Theatre. What a wonderful monologue about one parent's love for their son and emotions that come from hearing about the son's first kiss.

What everybody wants on their wedding night, a couple of helicopter parents just ready to help you with your honeymoon and to set you on a path for a successful marriage and life together. In the skillful hands of Steven G.Martin, this is also one of the funniest plays I've read in a long time. Knowing when to let go is one of the basic life lessons for any parents but aren't we always delighted by those who just can't cut the cord soon enough.

No one likes the person who is the buzz kill of anything and yet, sometimes those who kill the buzz have a very good reason to do so and like Marjorie may never come clean about it because they are branded as that kill joy We all know that comedy is so hard to write but having to deal with sexual harassment the way Marjorie did is not laughing matter for anyone.

We see the news day in and day out that are like this tragic story like the one that is presented in Alan’s beautiful and oh so thought-provoking “Covered in Flames.” The voices are coming at you fast and furious and they don’t really let up with their attack so that you feel beaten up emotionally and that you feel so physically shaken as this theatrical chorus give you the facts of the tragedy like a new cast and you can draw your own conclusions and as you take just a few moments to process this amazing play.

Yes, he does. That first kiss is something like magic and I would imagine if it's a child, it could be even more magical over time because as kids we believe in such things as magic and the beauty of things of what happened so long ago on a playground that take on an otherworld presence that can make us or break us over the time in between.

We are all put into boxes from such an early age and what we can do and cannot do. In this one minute gem, we see what it's like to think that maybe we can always do much more and surprise all of those around us who have already decided for themselves who and what we are-- who says you can't teach dogs or cats new tricks if you just put your mind to it and human opinion be damned.

As the playwright says himself, you've probably had this conversation and the genius of this two hander is that it is so believable to hear yourself in this conversation especially after some wine has been consumed and you will start to tally up the points in favor of and those against falling in love with poets, amateur or professional.

Oh, those moments that we all all wish for and long for when we lose someone that we loved and who loved us. Donley's lovely and so sweet play gives us one of those moments where Alec gets some closure to his lover's death knowing that even though there will be months and maybe years to grieve his loss, the sun will still rise and shine just a little each and every day.

It's so strange that to this day, sex remains such a mystery for most of the human population and one that is taboo with people in general. Army Nurse plays with that concept of how, if those natural urges might be thought of as less sinful or just downright something we all do and experience, then maybe sex would lose some of its mystery and become more scientific and way less sexy to all those who crave it.