Recommended by Dominica Plummer

  • The Caregivers
    14 Mar. 2019
    Anna, Margaret's Trinidadian caregiver, and Margaret's daughter Frances face off as they try to decide how best to deal with Margaret's slow progress towards death, made all the more painful because Alzheimer's has robbed Margaret of her mind while leaving behind a body that needs 24 hour care. Anna is determined to keep Margaret's body comfortable for as long as possible, while Frances is actively working to end her mother's suffering. Zamoyta's deeply moving drama encourages us to empathize with each character even as we wonder how we would act in a similar situation.
  • Working for Crumbs - A Dead Body Farce
    11 Mar. 2019
    An absolutely hilarious farce that will have audiences laughing until their sides hurt. This fast paced comedy has great roles for actresses who have a talent for slapstick. Kate Danley has written a play that will appeal to audiences everywhere, and especially those who have some experience of life in a modern corporation!
  • SH*T TRAIN
    19 Feb. 2019
    This steam locomotive of a play is one heck of a crazy train trip, and Carnes has handed us the ultimate ticket to ride. Whether you identify with the alpha wolf (please no) or the hapless omega, get on board for a laugh loaded 10 minute spin through the world of work in the grip of a demented manager from hell!
  • Rain Voices
    13 Feb. 2019
    An intriguing short play that isn't so much a "whodunnit" as a "is she going to do it"? An anonymous motel in Iowa is the setting for this unexpected visit from a young man who attempts to persuade his future mother to avoid the rendezvous that will lead to his conception. Just the ticket for a play festival that is looking for something original and thought provoking.
  • Collective Empathy Formation from 1968 and 2018
    7 Feb. 2019
    Too young to have been alive in 1968, the chosen study year, Calley Anderson's characters work through powerful confrontations unleashed by personal assumptions about race and gender while assessing the importance of events of that watershed year. As their choices reveal the truth of who they are to themselves, and to each other, each learns what empathy truly means, and how history's long reach can affect both present and an as yet undetermined future. Highly recommended.
  • Welcome to Keene, New Hampshire
    5 Feb. 2019
    As others have said, the echoes of Thornton Wilder are loud and clear in this accurate, break your heart tribute to all those New England towns that are broken down shadows of their former glories. Brian James Polak's play creates quietly memorable characters as they go about stultifying existences, dreaming of escape. There is both irony and tragedy in their stories, and the whole piece is nicely held together by a parking attendant narrator who presides over both the living and dead. A play for our times, speaking clearly about the dangers of exhausted slogans and unheeded cries for help.
  • Next Year, Cancun
    14 Jan. 2019
    A great short play for older actors looking for a farcical situation that rapidly and hilariously spirals out of control. Arthur Jolly creates a side-splitting script that shows how a respectable married couple celebrating their twenty fifth wedding anniversary can walk just a little too far on the wild side!
  • CHRISTMAS 2.0
    28 Dec. 2018
    I loved this heart-warming play about empty nests, traveling husbands, incontinent cats, and the perils of social media. Donna Hoke gives us a seasonal, laugh out loud drama that feels utterly true to life, yet still manages to give us the happy ending that we all hope for at Christmas. Perfect!
  • One is the Road
    28 Dec. 2018
    I saw this at the 2018 Midwest Dramatists Conference and it is a haunting piece that compels the audience's attention. Loewenstern grabs your attention with the first line, pulls you on board with the driver, and gives you the ride of a lifetime.
  • COACH BECKY: A LITTLE LEAGUE T-BALL MONOLOGUE
    26 Dec. 2018
    Coach Becky is the coach that every parent loves to hate. But audiences will love Asher Wyndham's character. Whether coaching Little League or commenting on life in the bleachers and beyond, Becky pitches it straight at the unwary helicopter parent to hilarious effect. Highly recommended!

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