Recommended by Arianna Rose

  • Arianna Rose: Persephone

    An absolute stunner of a play about love, loss, and the everlife. What Jennifer O'Grady accomplishes in ten minutes is remarkable. I didn't want the play to end. PERSEPHONE has had several productions and been published and I can see why! While Persephone may never have wanted to be named after a goddess, her actions are nothing short of god-like, no small feat for a professed atheist. Read it, weep, laugh, you'll be a changed human being and the better for having read this jewel of a play.

    An absolute stunner of a play about love, loss, and the everlife. What Jennifer O'Grady accomplishes in ten minutes is remarkable. I didn't want the play to end. PERSEPHONE has had several productions and been published and I can see why! While Persephone may never have wanted to be named after a goddess, her actions are nothing short of god-like, no small feat for a professed atheist. Read it, weep, laugh, you'll be a changed human being and the better for having read this jewel of a play.

  • Arianna Rose: Commencement (a 10 minute play)

    Such a lovely, honest, warm depiction of friends on the cusp of the new adventure of college - but first they have to leave their high school friends and family life behind. I instantly related to both characters and the storyline. Dramatist Jackie Martin writes with empathy and wit about this rite of passage. I loved these characters, and so will you. Read it, produce it!

    Such a lovely, honest, warm depiction of friends on the cusp of the new adventure of college - but first they have to leave their high school friends and family life behind. I instantly related to both characters and the storyline. Dramatist Jackie Martin writes with empathy and wit about this rite of passage. I loved these characters, and so will you. Read it, produce it!

  • Arianna Rose: Choices: A Ten-Minute Play

    a brilliant, imaginative play about making deals with the devil. As someone with a crushing student loan debt from grad school, this play resonated with me on so many levels. Clever, smart, and a terrific ending - James McLindon has hit it out of the park with CHOICES. It's getting produced and with great reason!

    a brilliant, imaginative play about making deals with the devil. As someone with a crushing student loan debt from grad school, this play resonated with me on so many levels. Clever, smart, and a terrific ending - James McLindon has hit it out of the park with CHOICES. It's getting produced and with great reason!

  • Arianna Rose: Every Seven Minutes (Online Version)

    I had the extreme pleasure of watching an online production of this smart, funny, philosophical treatise on playing God and its ramifications. Playwright Ken Preuss writes with comic precision and always sticks the landing! To say more would be to give too much away - suffice it to say, read it and produce it!

    I had the extreme pleasure of watching an online production of this smart, funny, philosophical treatise on playing God and its ramifications. Playwright Ken Preuss writes with comic precision and always sticks the landing! To say more would be to give too much away - suffice it to say, read it and produce it!

  • Arianna Rose: A Split Second

    A hard, beautiful, devastating play about the ways we all are connected, for better and for worse. Every parent's nightmare handled with care and expertise by playwright Jennifer O'Grady. A SPLIT SECOND reminds us of how we all live on borrowed time.

    A hard, beautiful, devastating play about the ways we all are connected, for better and for worse. Every parent's nightmare handled with care and expertise by playwright Jennifer O'Grady. A SPLIT SECOND reminds us of how we all live on borrowed time.

  • Arianna Rose: Zoom Zoom

    I loved this line so: "We’re not even ‘socially distancing’ - we’re just ‘physically distancing.’" John Mabey speaks truth to pandemic and taps into the zeitgeist of what we are all feeling and experiencing. ZOOM ZOOM is short, succinct, and full of angst and humor. A perfect one-minute monologue!

    I loved this line so: "We’re not even ‘socially distancing’ - we’re just ‘physically distancing.’" John Mabey speaks truth to pandemic and taps into the zeitgeist of what we are all feeling and experiencing. ZOOM ZOOM is short, succinct, and full of angst and humor. A perfect one-minute monologue!

  • Arianna Rose: LOTTIE'S LAMENT

    Vivian Lermond has a way with words that will have you laughing helplessly. She has an innate ability to tap into the essence of a woman and share it so beautifully with all of us. Lottie's Lament captures this wonderful awful moment for all of us! Read it, perform it, produce it!

    Vivian Lermond has a way with words that will have you laughing helplessly. She has an innate ability to tap into the essence of a woman and share it so beautifully with all of us. Lottie's Lament captures this wonderful awful moment for all of us! Read it, perform it, produce it!

  • Arianna Rose: RE-POLISHED

    Vivian Lermond creates evocative moods with gorgeous poetry that drifts through a monologue like cumulus clouds on a summer day. Her turns of phrase will stay with you long after the lights go down. Re-polished is a short, perfect gem of a monologue for a teenage girl.

    Vivian Lermond creates evocative moods with gorgeous poetry that drifts through a monologue like cumulus clouds on a summer day. Her turns of phrase will stay with you long after the lights go down. Re-polished is a short, perfect gem of a monologue for a teenage girl.

  • Arianna Rose: Belle, Ex-Wife of a Beast (monologue)

    What a treat to hear this monologue performed on Writer's Block Radio Hour in Scotland. A funny, feisty take on what really happened to Belle that will appeal to all adventurous spirits. A terrific audition piece and a fabulous dramatic work. Kudos to Jennifer O'Grady for the new -and needed- perspective.

    What a treat to hear this monologue performed on Writer's Block Radio Hour in Scotland. A funny, feisty take on what really happened to Belle that will appeal to all adventurous spirits. A terrific audition piece and a fabulous dramatic work. Kudos to Jennifer O'Grady for the new -and needed- perspective.

  • Arianna Rose: CHANGED UP CHAUCER

    The sheer variety of Vivian Lermond's writing is breathtaking. CHANGED UP CHAUCER turns Chaucer on his head and inside it and I for one am glad of it. An truly enjoyable piece of writing. Bravo to Ms. Lermond on another success.

    The sheer variety of Vivian Lermond's writing is breathtaking. CHANGED UP CHAUCER turns Chaucer on his head and inside it and I for one am glad of it. An truly enjoyable piece of writing. Bravo to Ms. Lermond on another success.