Recommended by Lee R. Lawing

I swear by mediation and do it every night before bed, but it doesn't mean I don't appreciate this funny play about one guided session and quite frankly this is about what I experience every night. I used to think you had to shut everything out to be doing it "right" but I've learned to welcome all the clutter and noise that comes my way. I think I will try Carbajl's gem tonight!

This is one of the funniest plays I've read and I would like this to be filmed and be on my "Must watch" Halloween and Christmas shows every year as it would fit into both worlds very nicely.

Saw this wonderful play read live on the Reading Theater Project and the playwright interviewed afterwards. We all have our way of dealing with grief and loss and this mom's actions seem like something that would be so calming and make you find a little more understanding about the brevity of this life and appreciation for those who came before you in death. The daughter's non-sentimentality struck a personal chord with me especially with the death and the rituals surround it for a non-Christian human.

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!