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Halloween is my favorite holiday and it was my moms as well. Last year I was definitely sad about not being to have trick o treaters and unfortunately it seems that we might be looking at another lackluster Halloween due to Covid once again. I’ll zoom with Sam and enjoy the Holiday nevertheless! It always helps to commesorate with others in the same boat.

Favorite sons and daughters always makes for such interesting Storylines. I read this the day after my moms memorial where my brother joked that I was always her favorite, and he was dads. Being gay made me connect to my mom in a way I didn’t with my dad. As I got older that changed but it was so interesting to read Williams tale that evokes so much familiarity and yet such freshness that makes it timeless.

A play everyone should be reading right now, what with the planet on fire and everyone seems to be OK with the climate changing so rapidly it seems that we are the path set forth in this play, where we are left with no water and not green and only the fire that will end us all. How will the world end? Ice or fire! Boats in the Canyon offers up the later and my heart breaks from the power of this short play.

Always fun to read any Weaver play! It can take eons to discover you don't like someone over the simplest of things, but Pickle Jar provides one such scenario that is funny and so much deeper than a jar or pickles could ever be.

Haunting piece that rips your heart apart. We wake up each day and most of us forget how fortunate we are here in the states to have choices and freedom to make our own decisions. The daughter speaking of her small dreams that she loses forever in an act of violence by soldiers. and the mother speaking of the fruit ripening and a harvest that will change this village forever.

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.

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 . . . .

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.

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.

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.