Recommended by Donna Hoke

Language to luxuriate in and learn from. A powerful solo show.

Yarchun is chronicling the demise of the trucking industry through the eyes of displaced drivers in one Iowa town, but the melancholy tone of the play and the despair of the newly unemployed cut across so many industries that have eroded in the wake of technology. This particular take on automation--unemployment--strikes a particular chord in May 2020 when so many are dealing with unemployment and these same questions of identity and value in the wake of forced joblessness. A gnawing, powerful, and poignant work.

LOL. Matthew has hilariously ensured the legacy of his own canon with witty gem!

People need this play to learn how to help parents who've lost infants, people those parents alone knew and loved. Kudos to David for sharing so much truth and pain in an effort to share awareness.

This play is so very very hard... and so very very good. I hope it opens eyes and changes at least one life.

Youth audiences will love this blend of political and comic, truth and fantasy, and honestly, who doesn't think Barack Obama is a superhero?

Emily is just a freakin' genius and I've never read anything of hers that isn't just so dead on, particularly for the youth market. I loved reading this clever, dialogue-less play, and like all Emily's work, it simultaneously provides great role for youth and great substance. Another Hageman gem.

I've been wanting to read this play for so long and am so glad I finally did! It's so imaginative and rich and layered and dramatic and theatrical but, most of all, SO ENGAGING. I was glued to every page. Wonderful, wonderful work.

So many commented here on the humor, which is evident, but what struck me most was the yearning in Pedro's efforts, the surety that speaking in English would somehow manage that. What emerged was a moving and melancholy allegory for an entire country desperate to be heard.

Everything you want in a work of art for the stage: theatrical, poetic, moving, and original.