Recommended by Lee R. Lawing

Without ugliness there can be no beauty or so the saying goes. I was always attracted to the monsters up front without apology. Sickles gives us a beautiful play about those in the world who have been deemed monsters by our society and in that decree given others the right to kill them because they have been labeled and designated by humans as those monsters I love that the Minotaur is given a new light in which to see itself and end its days with that new enlightenment that it's not stuck with its human label till the end days.

The beautiful take-away from Lermond's monologue is that it's never too late to become the person you feel you deserve to be to, goddess or not!

This monologue nails so many o of the truths about why we are here in a situation which is miraculous in and of itself, being able to live on a planet out of zillion of them and knowing there is just this one and not a reserve planet waiting in the wings when this one fails--why don't we as people start, even if we start with just one hour out of our day , to love one another just a little more and try to protect this mother that we seem so ready to throw away for good.

Wow, this packs a so much power into the minute and was the today's featured play. So glad it was!

There is a beauty that has its own definition when it comes to our relationships we have with the animals we love Suzanne has that beauty with her horse and this monologue will tear the heartstrings our of anyone who loves animals like Suzanne does. Senseless violence like the one that Suzanne faced are acts which truly can only stop if we just do away with guns. Other countries have done as such and not seemed to face an end of civilization by doing so. If we had done that Suzanne would still be here able braid her horse's mane.

We've all been Claires in our life so many times and there have been times when the thought of giving up is easier to contemplate than continuing, but this play offers up that piece of writing that has been there since the start of time--the playwright's support, their rock they lean on, their friend they send every thing they write to to judge and critique and give that support that they can do this little thing they've set out to do which is to be a writer and one that's a little recognized now and then.

Some say that one of the best ways to survive a relationship in tact is having separate bedrooms and bathrooms from the very beginning to leave the mystery intact. I would love to see this one filmed with Jacquelyn in the lead. I love her sense of humor and her way of connecting us all to something so familiar living in a too small of space and what that actually means when it comes down to it. With her 2Brm 1 Bath I get a very clear picture of the funny it can bring out in all of us.

This play had me laughing so hard and every character was spot on, and just like the golden girls where you identify with one of the characters, I so identified with Suzanne and her cheerful attitude toward everything. All of us have dreams that we feel we didn't ever get to fulfill, and Feriend takes us on a comedic ride with one such story where even though the performers and stage manager are in a children's theater in North Dakota, one can find a little happiness even if you feel you're trapped with a low-level demon in exile.

This play had me at Eve Arden! Actually I was already kicking back and enjoying this breezy and very funny play from the very first page. There's nothing better than campy parody of horror movies but when you make all the characters gay, it's even better. This would have been a blast to see onstage!

This is a beautiful play that reminds me of how much the LGBTQIA community has come and the fact that so many people actually survived and pushed the boundaries way before it was acceptable to do so. Even with all the scientific proof that has been done to help us gain a seat at the table, a lot of religious people still drag us back to the medieval days with what they say is right and wrong and people still get killed throughout the world because of this belief. Still a long road ahead but one I'm always ready for.