Recommended by Ross Tedford Kendall

A dark love letter to old Broadway, this play serves as a model for the theatrical biography. Showing June at various stages of her life with a dreamlike quality, we're shown a complete character on stage, and yet it flies by, never once lagging. Her contentious relationships with her mother, her sister, and those she works with gives her a human quality we can relate with, and yet provides the conflict to keep our interest. The supporting characters are similarly admirable and flawed. This is a grand theatrical experience.

Playwright O'Doherty weaves an innovative form with Lottery. Combining audience interaction, split action, and more traditional scenes, the play juxtaposes extremes of good and bad luck, with life and/or death consequences. The play has no easy answers, just the raw truth.

A play that brings out a subtle metaphor in a gut-punching conclusion. The beginning compels you to pay attention, delivering maximum impact at the end. Well done!

The playwright really recreates a dog's thought process in this well structured and enjoyable little piece.

A great little adventure drama that gives a real sense of history and place. With interesting parallels to the 19th century serial killer and today's pandemic, this would be a great piece in a themed evening, or just any 10 minute festival.

The world of this play may be fictional, but the crucible of truth it creates is very real. The characters come alive in a play that hits on culture, identity, and community. Not content to exist in the traditional notion of what constitutes a play, this play breaks out into the realms of metafiction and experimental theatre, mirroring the experiences of its characters. I feel exposed to a world I that I myself have never truly felt. This play is an achievement of the highest order, and I am grateful to have read it. I hope to see it staged!

A play that shows a character going through a crisis. Though possibly minor to everyone else, this play shows that it is anything but. A great insight found by playwright McClain that touches on things many people gloss over.

A great little play that twists things around and leaves you guessing. The characters come out the other side with a very satisfying conclusion. A fun play for any ten minute festival.

Though only a page, this play hits hard. It puts in perspective what is happening now, and it manages to shock and scare in its brief runtime.

A great play that touches on memories, with a mystical quality that gives it an otherworldy feel. This play really gives hope and meaning to life, in an affirming way.