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Lee R. Lawing

Recommended by Lee R. Lawing

  • Finding Mother Courage by Pamela Kingsley
    28 Jul. 2021
    “ This play would keep from ever going to another audition. Kingsley's Finding Mother Courage is a funny , yet tender play about finding courage in all situations and all circumstances and to bring that courage forward at any time you need it because even if you think no one sees or hears you, you can still bring about change. ”
  • It Mutates by Evan Baughfman
    28 Jul. 2021
    “ I was one of those firm believers that Facebook would be our undoing! And the more they proved it was driving our selections and what we liked and what we believed in, it became even more of threat. Baughfman presents a world undone by its own need for screen time vs. just being alive in the world and letting that be enough. It used to be . . . . ”
  • Du Mal by Lane Anthony Flores
    28 Jul. 2021
    “ Those precious artists who were ahead of their time in so many ways Those brilliant enough to see beauty in every thing there was to see it in when sometimes that was more than the Christianized world could even accept. Du Mal is about just one genius and his mother who has loved him to ruin and yet deep down realizes somewhere deep in her heart that this son was a gift from this God who according to the doctrine makes no mistakes and so we see a bit of this with this very beautiful ode to art and love. ”
  • Horny Orderly - A Symphony of Sex and Sorrow in 11 Minutes & 47 Seconds by C. Julian Jiménez
    27 Jul. 2021
    “ We all deal with stress in our own way. For many, it's through sex, no matter the time or the place. Deaths or funerals, or the near dying in this case, bring out that rush of adrenaline that can propel you into the hunt. Jiménez provides just that in this funny and very touching play about death, dealing with it and that need to escape into the springs of life that help make you whole. ”
  • Cookies and Milk (a 10-minute play) by Mary Darling
    26 Jul. 2021
    “ What a great play and the title is perfect because you go in thinking you are getting one thing, but then you get the emotional slap across the face and you realize it's taken you into a completely different road which is much more dark and more raw and more real than what you get with most break-up stories. Sex is one of those parts of a relationship that is very important, especially if you like sex. In your face funny, especially Boy's last action before Girl walks out, Cookies and Milk would be a welcome addition to the circuit. ”
  • Pugette in a Slingshot by Bryan Stubbles
    26 Jul. 2021
    “ We all go through those mid-life crisis where we start to think about our lives: what we have done, what we have accomplished. Did we make the right choices. Only one life to live and is it being lived to its most fullest. Stubbles explores this here. Great title and my play of the day which is always fun when I know the playwright! France takes a moment to reevaluate her life up to this moment brought on by a horrible nightmare and we as the reader do the same thing with ourselves. And a great last line! ”
  • Circle the Drain by Dannielle Pendzich
    24 Jul. 2021
    “ It's the saying that we keep "marrying or partnering up" with the same person over and over, a lot of times with that other person just becoming a few years younger. What a great title for this play. If only they made divorce illegal, maybe that would stop a lot of these first marriages so that when you tire of the older model, you could just easily shit to a newer and so called better one that you love more--just because it's new, just like the older one you so loved to death back when they were new. ”
  • The Rowan Knight by Karen Fix Curry
    23 Jul. 2021
    “ I saw a zoom production of this by Crafton Hills College and what an incredible tale this is . Curry's The Roman Knight is cautionary tale of what can happen when one witch steps beyond her magical means and intervenes with a Knight who has suffered a serious battle wound. The production was at times funny but always thought-provoking as Curry did mention that this play was on about mental illness and you can see that with Sir Rowan after he is saved by the witch. ”
  • 37 Scenes and a Watermelon by Ian Downes
    23 Jul. 2021
    “ Such wonderous theatricality! This was my play of the day and what a summer treat indeed. ”
  • Clasp by Toby Malone
    22 Jul. 2021
    “ Love in the time of covid. Reminds me a lot about all the dating days when I first started out and AIDS was still taking its toll on the gay world and you'd meet up with someone and think, does he have it? Do I have it and not know it? Clasp is so very real and and tugs at your heart so very hard. Malone's play states that social distancing is not going to be a forever thing and his play makes us glad that that is the case. ”

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