Recommended by Donna Hoke

  • Donna Hoke: Lift and Separate

    I really love the specificity of the lingerie store as a backdrop for this story about female empowerment. I really felt like I was getting an inside peek at this business!

    I really love the specificity of the lingerie store as a backdrop for this story about female empowerment. I really felt like I was getting an inside peek at this business!

  • Donna Hoke: The Super Variety Match Bonus Round!

    I've heard recently from contest readers that plays featuring parents coping with loss of a child are a current trend; when trends like that happen, the ones that rise up are the ones that are able to find ways to tell those stories with a unique voice, theatricality and, most of all, humor. This play does all that and then some, and I fear the only limitation in reading it was my own imagination. What a ride this must be on stage!

    I've heard recently from contest readers that plays featuring parents coping with loss of a child are a current trend; when trends like that happen, the ones that rise up are the ones that are able to find ways to tell those stories with a unique voice, theatricality and, most of all, humor. This play does all that and then some, and I fear the only limitation in reading it was my own imagination. What a ride this must be on stage!

  • Donna Hoke: Obama-ology

    I've been wanting to read this play for so long and I'm so grateful that Aurin has a full copy on NPX. This piece is so brilliantly satisfying in every way and even though the events of it take place nearly twelve years ago, it couldn't remain more relevant. Theatrical, concise, moving, funny, provocative and, most of all, true, this piece deserves more life.

    I've been wanting to read this play for so long and I'm so grateful that Aurin has a full copy on NPX. This piece is so brilliantly satisfying in every way and even though the events of it take place nearly twelve years ago, it couldn't remain more relevant. Theatrical, concise, moving, funny, provocative and, most of all, true, this piece deserves more life.

  • Donna Hoke: It's Always the Quiet Ones

    Hilarious even without the multiple twist endings! Great comedic short for any festival!

    Hilarious even without the multiple twist endings! Great comedic short for any festival!

  • Donna Hoke: This Almost Joy

    What a brilliant and delicious conceit. If we, the audience knows we are real, what the hell is going on on stage? Confounding, provoking, and funny!

    What a brilliant and delicious conceit. If we, the audience knows we are real, what the hell is going on on stage? Confounding, provoking, and funny!

  • Donna Hoke: Apples in Winter

    I had this play on my reading list for a while but I'm now in the early stages of prepping to write a one-woman show so I finally read it. And now I feel completely unworthy to write a one-woman show because I don't feel like I could ever write one as perfect as this one. Everything about it does exactly what it should do and so exquisitely. An amazing piece of work.

    I had this play on my reading list for a while but I'm now in the early stages of prepping to write a one-woman show so I finally read it. And now I feel completely unworthy to write a one-woman show because I don't feel like I could ever write one as perfect as this one. Everything about it does exactly what it should do and so exquisitely. An amazing piece of work.

  • Donna Hoke: A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: A Climate Change Comedy

    So interesting to read this in April 2020 as global warming gets put on the back burner so we can deal with disaster of another kind. Through that lens, this play becomes about more than climate change and instead reveals itself to be a universal illustration of how we face the unknown and how desperately we try to cling to normalcy in the face of it. Resonant on so many levels and a fascinating read in that regard.

    So interesting to read this in April 2020 as global warming gets put on the back burner so we can deal with disaster of another kind. Through that lens, this play becomes about more than climate change and instead reveals itself to be a universal illustration of how we face the unknown and how desperately we try to cling to normalcy in the face of it. Resonant on so many levels and a fascinating read in that regard.

  • Donna Hoke: You Can Thank Me Later (Audio & Stage Play)

    This play was recommended reading for audio plays and it doesn't disappoint! Sound effects, visuals for the imagination, and high stakes. Wonderful.

    This play was recommended reading for audio plays and it doesn't disappoint! Sound effects, visuals for the imagination, and high stakes. Wonderful.

  • Donna Hoke: SEEING EYE

    I love the relationship between Robbie and Jason because it highlights what should be so simple about human connections and which gets so complicated by perception. The way Nick plays that that perception is so brilliant and illuminates so much of what can become problematic when we cast too hard an eye on any of it. Beautiful.

    I love the relationship between Robbie and Jason because it highlights what should be so simple about human connections and which gets so complicated by perception. The way Nick plays that that perception is so brilliant and illuminates so much of what can become problematic when we cast too hard an eye on any of it. Beautiful.

  • Donna Hoke: Kafka and the Doll

    This is such a lovely story full of such love on so many different levels. I love Franz's gift to Sofie and all the learning and loving that happens. And so much for designers to play with that could really make this a most magical show! Will be following this play's journey for sure!

    This is such a lovely story full of such love on so many different levels. I love Franz's gift to Sofie and all the learning and loving that happens. And so much for designers to play with that could really make this a most magical show! Will be following this play's journey for sure!