Recommended by Lee R. Lawing

Haunting and completely mesmerizing. I was fortunate to see this performed by Karen Fraser in a recording for the NYC Equity Library Summer Festival. The performance capture perfectly the emotions of Maudie who was locked in a gilded cage by her husband who like so many men of yesterday and today unfortunately were more concerned with just the façade of marriage but not any of those duties that make people fall in love and make them more whole as a person from experiencing the sexual side of a relationship. Brava!

I came across this play when I saw another play by the playwright being recommended and when I went to Oglesby's home page, I saw this one and was drawn to the title at once. A title that does not let you down in any sense. Raw, gritty and funny as hell, Oglesby takes us on a emotional journey about humans trying to find love and come to terms with their own sexuality on a farm that breeds pit-bulls. This play will stick with you long after you finish it and for all the right reasons.

What’s the best way to cook up an urban legend of your own than over a séance and trying to figure out exactly how the ghost you are trying to contact died. This is a delightful and funny ghost tale and Paritan brings such a sparkle to the piece that you feel bewitched by the end.

A play that still resonates so strongly even as Covid goes away from day to day lives. The woman is so instantly relatable with her talk of iphone battery life and her worries of where to sit on the train. Days that seemed like they could never happen, but did, and this play is one of the most touching of covid monologues I’ve read due to the horror that we all face and could face again.

This monologued creeped me out. At first I was reading it thinking it was about that, but then went back to read a few times and suddenly felt Gary was a very creepy man and the situation one of horror. Great monologue that leaves so much to the imagination!

What’s a person gotta do to get their 15-minute break. Marchant’s funny and very realistic play has Amber trying to do just that in a breakroom which we find out doesn’t sell hourglasses or even ice cream but that little snafu finally gives her those free moments to finish out her 15 like she wanted to.

Funny take on the Groundhog Day premise with a married couple caught up in a time loop. What makes it so funny is knowing that so many our conversations with others are often repeated with phrases like "I may have told you this before, " or "I probably told you this already," that you start to feel just like Barbara and Bert on their cruise. We could all use a little interruption like George provides.

This would be so great to see at any one-minute festival. Clever and very well executed. Any audience member would be left in awe!

Black Jesus shows Christianity the way I wish I could have learned it. My Jesus was certainly white thanks to all the pictures of him in our church, but I am a gay man so for me, my Jesus was gay on top of that, but of course that was not liked by my church or their teachings. Decius presents a lot with this short comedy and does it so well, that it almost has me longing again for the wonders that the Son of God has to offer!

Brilliant monologue about a person who usually is heard a few times in their careers, but poor Malcolm is never allowed on stage once in all of his time as an understudy to Sir Giles. We are drawn into Malcolm's world of heartache and revenge and we the reader and audience are left breathless with his final word which is so defiant and brings about much closure for us the reader and I hope for man who never got his chance to dazzle the stage.