Recommended by Lee R. Lawing

There are always reasons to read a John Busser play and one of them is that you will be laughing throughout and the other is that even in a comedy like this, you will come out of the experience with a deeper meaning about life and human relations and what it means to be human in the world of ours before it those human connections possibly fade and disappear for good.

All the possibilities of what might have been if we had taken the other road when we come to those forks in them. Two men on very different paths meet up again 30 years after their last met and this beautiful play deals with the possibilities that may have been and still could be even though age and time may have changed both, there might still be a spark that is there to relight the flames that have dimmed but obviously not gone out.

There are moments in life where you suddeny feel that you've been suckered punch in the gut and all that air is just oozing out of you with such surprise and awareness because most of us get far too comfortable with our roles in life and those roles of everyone around us. The ending of this play will make you feel that punch has hit you and the surprise you feel is all just a bit of perfection for the time spent at this B&B.

We've all gone through those times where no matter what brought us to the table of a romantic entanglement, sometimes, you've got to step away and out of a situation and it's never easy no matter what age you are. Like Jo, however, you may realize that the four legged creature is the one that you may miss more than the actual human and for that you would definitely be forgiven the risk you be wiling to take to see them again.

A future is playing out in the this short but oh so terrifying monologue, a future where science and education are punted away from the table as if they were no longer of value and for those like Mother Hen, they are not. A must read of what is surely to come in these next years of a Trump presidency.

This will make you hold your breath from the very beginning as the tension builds between the confessor and Eminence and the true horror of what it actually means to covet something is laid out in utter realism that never hits a false note or shies away from what the playwright has set out to do.

I feel like so many of my meetings sound just like this play where you sit around looking for problems that are not there just to feel better about coming together weekly or bi-weekly to settle the world's problems. This play digs in deep all the while making the reader or audience member chuckle and sometimes aloud.

Photography is so many times such a solitary art form and even if there may be other people there as you are taking the photographs, the photographer can forget them and forget time as they focus in on the subject for one time or two times or a dozen just trying to get that bit of frozen time that is so precious to us all. Steve perfectly captures those times and moments in his beautiful and oh so artful monologue MACRO.

Throughout the history of cinema there has been that discussion of stars vs. real actors and the benefits of either when it comes down to casting a new production. What we all hope for in the end is the same that Jasmine hopes for from Karl and that is just be heard and to be seen in a way that that he had never thought of before because in the end we can all get too comfortable in the boxes we paint ourselves into without ever realizing the benefits of a new round spotlight in which to be seen.

It doesn't matter whatever she's writing about , I always find Floyd-Priskorn's plays so witty and funny and this one is no exception. Even though she is dealing with such a topic as depression, she understands that so many times as humans we are carried back and forth between emotions that sometimes we have no control of and there are times we may end up in the Darkness, we should only look out for those who are around us who we can lean on and hopefully find our way out of that pit into a brighter path.