Recommended by Lee R. Lawing

  • Lee R. Lawing: 37 Scenes and a Watermelon

    Such wonderous theatricality! This was my play of the day and what a summer treat indeed.

    Such wonderous theatricality! This was my play of the day and what a summer treat indeed.

  • Lee R. Lawing: Clasp

    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.

    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.

  • Lee R. Lawing: How To Brew Tea: A One-Minute Play

    A life-long lesson in one-minute. How to Brew Tea is so simple and it is that simplicity which makes it such a joy to read and see on stage! Another great one-minute play!

    A life-long lesson in one-minute. How to Brew Tea is so simple and it is that simplicity which makes it such a joy to read and see on stage! Another great one-minute play!

  • Lee R. Lawing: Slow Burn

    Love and relationships are hard enough to maneuver as it is, when you're girlfriend just happens to be a criminal and you a decretive, the maneuvering is amped a thousand times. I liked the beginning as it surprised me a little at what was going on. Two people at the opening of any pay drawing guns has a 50/50 chance at ending a little painfully, but this gentle comedy had me from the very start and I was happy with being caught!

    Love and relationships are hard enough to maneuver as it is, when you're girlfriend just happens to be a criminal and you a decretive, the maneuvering is amped a thousand times. I liked the beginning as it surprised me a little at what was going on. Two people at the opening of any pay drawing guns has a 50/50 chance at ending a little painfully, but this gentle comedy had me from the very start and I was happy with being caught!

  • Lee R. Lawing: My Dad is a Scar

    Powerful and very raw. Pulling at every type of emotion in the spaces of two pages. The unknown abuse children face is unforgiveable, but when a father is suffering from PTSD, you start to see a darker and even more terrifying life for this young boy and how brave he's been up through this talk he's having with his teacher.

    Powerful and very raw. Pulling at every type of emotion in the spaces of two pages. The unknown abuse children face is unforgiveable, but when a father is suffering from PTSD, you start to see a darker and even more terrifying life for this young boy and how brave he's been up through this talk he's having with his teacher.

  • Lee R. Lawing: HIDE and SEEK

    This play is so creepy in all the best ways. It's like a fable that parents tell their children in order to get them behave. Don't be like the siblings who went to paly hide and seek without their parents 'permission or you'll be lost forever. At turns funny, and then right back to creepy. Excellent play!

    This play is so creepy in all the best ways. It's like a fable that parents tell their children in order to get them behave. Don't be like the siblings who went to paly hide and seek without their parents 'permission or you'll be lost forever. At turns funny, and then right back to creepy. Excellent play!

  • Lee R. Lawing: THE FINALIST

    A dream come true for any playwright! Affoumado presents one playwrights adventure with a reading panel for a big festival. Funny and also just downright heartwarming, this play touches on so many feelings for any artist that reads it. Glad this was my play of the day today!

    A dream come true for any playwright! Affoumado presents one playwrights adventure with a reading panel for a big festival. Funny and also just downright heartwarming, this play touches on so many feelings for any artist that reads it. Glad this was my play of the day today!

  • Lee R. Lawing: BAWDY MAUDIE - MONOLOGUE

    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!

    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!

  • Lee R. Lawing: OR "the one with the dogs"

    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.

    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.

  • Lee R. Lawing: Variations on the Death of Vera

    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.

    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.