Recommended by Lee R. Lawing

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.

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!

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.

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.