Recommended by Lee R. Lawing

I loved this short play by Sickles. I was taken immediately back to my own childhood and my older brother and myself playing these same sort of games. I know how the older brother/younger brother syndrome played itself out with me and Joey, but I feel the Younger brother in Sickles' piece might just have a fighting chance at winning the life match!!

No matter the characters, I know with any Wyndham piece, I'm going to get somebody I'm not familiar with and this is another great example of that. Corey stands in the cold seeing sometimes that what you stand for doesn't make you the most popular person on campus. Hopefully Corey finds a change of heart, but I feel if he's still holding on to his Make America Great cap, there may not be a snowball's chance in hell for that redemption.

You're drawn in instantly by the title and then by the narrative and the remorseful tale that unfolds before you. This was a heartbreaking one to read and one that is so deserving to be seen because it points a light into the darker areas that are hard to find in us as humans, but oh so important to be discovered.

Goldman-Sherman has provided us with one of the most intriguing ones monologues I've read. We all face the day to day of life and everything that life throws at us and we are always questioning and worrying and all of that stress ends up in the gut and here is this woman who has been driven to find solace and relief in the one room of the house that again so many of us can find solace and protection and a little time to be alone with out thoughts and to keep ourselves regulated.

How I could resist reading this play when I saw one of my favorite writers listed. James Baldwin sets the stage for this beautiful poem by Lamedman. A poem of heartache and struggle and an overwhelming feeling of coming to terms with those things we do not have answers for or don't think we have the courage to face those answers when they come. This play speaks for us all and that is a monumental task that the writer has achieved with such grace and subtlety.

They say don't read between the lines, but here we have a play that presents just an average couple in an every day situation that turns a child-hood game up on its head with such devastation effect with a message that is purely for grown-ups and the relationship games they end up playing time after time.

I'm always transported into a place by Wyndham where I am getting to meet people I would never meet in my day to day existence. This play left me with so much joy, the action of the game, but also just the delight in meeting for a game without masks among others who have done the right thing for the benefit of all. Even with the darkness that anti-vaxxers and those misinformed slugs bring to the table, the joy of a simple game of volleyball can still bring a smile to everyone's mask-less face.

This feels to me so much like a silent movie would be like to watch in a darkened theater with no words and yet a lovely bit of music playing to set the mood and tone. Words are not the only way to get across a well of emotions and Martin proves once again masterful at his craft.

Weaver spins a magical journey for us all about the lessons of the world should be if all us just did our part and followed some of the basic guidelines! How different this pandemic could have looked if the world had followed suit.

A breezy delight from Wyndham. I'm guilty of being a rule follower I admit from standing in line for the next go on a swing or making sure I do not exit through a non-exit door. I was always afraid the alarm would go off. Wyndham's L is what I feel like I would have become if I did not go along with the basics of rules. Password sharing is not the greatest of crimes, of course, but L's entitlement that it should be makes them fall into that hopeless pit of losers that's already spilling over.