Recommended by Lee R. Lawing

What a beautiful play about friendship and being there for another person as they share with you how they feel and what they are feeling. Sometimes our friends are the last people we want to tell things to which is odd, but friends are an investment and no one likes to lose that investment over sharing the truth about us.
But it's that truth that enriches that bond we have with anyone that we call friend.

I was fortunate enough to see this monologue performed in a zoom performances and that actor brought this woman to life for all of us who were able to see her performance. I enjoy reading plays that are a part of the 365 Women a Year Playwrighting project as it opens my eyes up to so many people I don't know or have come across. Lidia Menapace was a woman who was doing amazing things right up to the day she passed and what better example for any of us to be inspired by.

Ramona takes pride in her work and we as the reader are proud of her as we listen to her ask her Dad for just a few more minutes at the arcade. Arcades are palaces of dreams and we are entranced with Ramona's words. The joy that this place brings her and what it meant to her dad who turned to it in times of pain and separation. Sometimes pride is a good thing. Sometimes you've just got to let the child have just a few more minutes in that sense of childhood that all too soon vanishes.

We all have those secrets we don't want to share with anyone and in relationships those can sometimes be make or break a relationship when they are found out. In this monologue, Hernandez captures one of the worse offense that another one could have upon learning that secret: just turning away from what they've heard and trying to disappear from the relationship. Rori puts him right and wise.

You know with Sickles you will get something different and something unique. It's one of the reason I return to his work again and again. This horrifying and terrifying play will be a gut punch to everyone and should be required reading for anyone who wants to end this continued and now just accepted assaults on our children at schools. This isn't a new normal or any normal that should be accepted. Wake up!

We have definitely all been in the same positions that Mia and Anthony have been in which makes this play so relatable and also so very, very funny. So many good lines throughout. Do youself a favor and snuggle in for a good night of reading and put this one at the top of your list!

Creepy and oh so disturbing. Hansen's monologue are the hairs on the back of my neck go up as I was reading it!

This was a play of the day for me and what a whacky and delightful play it is. Strange and full of humor that would make a great addition to a festival and be great live on stage.

What a wonderful play with roots in Three Faces of Eve, but working its own bit of magical, yet horrifying journey. Ferny-Williams gives us a short play that would make a welcome addition at any festival. There is that saying, you can't depend on anyone but your self. This play makes you understand why that may be at least for Katie.

What a play! As I was reading this I was picturing so many of those people in my life who would deserve such a fate for all the terrible things they did and that was so accepted back in the day. Unfortunately we've learned that bullies don't die much like the monsters in all the films who always come up for one last go at us, but we can hope that one day they won't be so fashionably accepted as they seem to be today.