Recommended by Deb Hiett

This is a wonderful audio play! The characters are well drawn from the start, and it's quite suspenseful. How fun.

What a powerful, moving play. The playwright has a mastery of pacing, building tension and using a sense of humor that stems organically from well-drawn, rich characters. The play elicits a lot of emotion, and stays with the reader long after it's over. Every theater should consider this play. As entertaining as it is relevant.

A wonderful two-hander with humor and insight and wonderful dialogue. You fall for the characters right away -- very distinct voices that rise and fall in harmony and discord both. Great turns for good actors here. Touching and timely!

An enthralling delve into a difficult and compelling relationship. MacLean really knows how to write bravura roles for actors, and any actor would be lucky to land in a production of this play, particularly if they are playing Hugo or Gen. The roles are packed with humor, passion, guilt, selfishness, need, longing, and most of all, love. You root for them, want to warn them, love to weep with them. This play stays with you. Beautifully done.

What a wonderfully unexpectedly sweet ten-minute play! I loved the way it captured the limits of anxiety, the pressures of loving something greater than yourself, and our cravings for certain "versions" of family. Walker has a gift of expressing a lot of character in a very few words. A refreshing read, that ends with a smile -- a much needed antidote these days.

What a sweet ten-minute piece! Koppen has a perfect balance of song and movement and character conflict, all while peppering the piece with great comic lines. The play captures the back and forth of married life and the duet of compromise. I love that it ends on an unexpected "note" also. :) This would be a crowd-pleaser!

One of the most moving plays I've ever had the pleasure of reading. What is exceptional about Maisel's play is the deft touch with which she guides you through these intertwined lives. There is not a false note or pushed moment of exposition, or over-explanation. She trusts you to get it, to piece it all together -- so when you do, it absolutely takes your breath away. The audience is carried along by a masterful writer, on a powerful spiritual journey. I just loved it.

A beautifully rendered reminder of how ancestral trauma lingers, and how it can be overcome. How do you handle learning of a family lie that undermines everything you know about yourself? Compellingly woven throughout is a valuable history lesson that I would guess most Americans don't already know. Multi-layered and complex, this play reaches through history in order to heal.

What a moving play. Within the first few pages, you are drawn into the lives of these clever, complicated people. The dialogue is sparkling and powerful and funny and devastating. MacLean has succeeded in conveying clinical depression in a startling theatrical way -- you really need to read it to understand how -- and it allows the reader to have a level of compassion for the character in a totally unique way. I can't imagine anyone not being moved by this play, whether or not they know anyone suffering from clinical depression or not. Highly recommend.

What a beautiful play about life after loss. Lisa has created some heartbreaking/wonderful roles for actors, and crafted a achingly lovely story about "living in the gray," redemption, and forgiveness. Highly recommend.