Recommended by Rachel Bublitz

This piece gave me a visceral reaction, I could feel it in my stomach as I read, in the tears welling in my eyes. Femia makes a jarring and yet apt comparison between a moment in the 2016 election in which one of the then candidates, and now our president, bragged on tape about grabbing women and a specific and personal sexual assault. There’s brilliant brevity to her dialogue, it would be devastating to see staged.

A haunting look at trauma and time. Are places our memory keepers, and would avoiding or destroying them set us free? This question is at the center of EM Lewis’ beautiful script. Time is played with in a highly theatricality manner, and the spectacle written into the stage direction has me wishing for a near to me production of this play. So well crafted, highly recommend.

A sweet and short play about endings and new beginnings, and saying goodbye to friends that are moving on to more exciting things.

Super funny short with two great roles for women. A ton of wonderful physical comedy too. Would be great to work with in a scene class, or in a short play festival. Excited to read more from Tripaldi!

I love this play. It feels like you're sitting on the couch with your best friend talking about everything and nothing when you read it. The characters are so complex and compelling, I would sit through many a road trip with any of them. The theatricality of time and space in this play is so brilliant. It's funny and sad and it made me think of the women and girls I've been close to and hope that I've done okay by them when they needed me. Please please produce this play immediately, somewhere near me! Wonderful work.

Minigan creates a deep world in this ten-minute play, which holds the expanse of two relationships, a failed engagement, and the ways you can really show you love someone. It's has a wonderful balance of humor and pain, and would make a great addition to any short play evening.

Funny and sad and entirely too relatable. I have often felt the sting of being the "no one" in the family who's expected to do everything without a thanks, and that feeling is completely nailed in SOMEONE. This would make a fantastic audition monologue, it has a lot of humor, depth, and a completely clear objective. Really well done.

A great short play about time, power dynamics, love, and life. Two inmates discuss the likelihood of time existing, or if it's just another form of control. Both sides of the debate are given strong arguments, which had me questioning reality like all good philosophy plays do. THE INVENTION OF TIME also has two great characters for actors to dig into. I think it would be a great addition to an evening of shorts.

This play is gorgeous from beginning to end, it's no wonder it's being produced around the country. Simpson pulls you in immediately through her sparse and poetic dialogue, the rich relationships, and the deep character development. This is a play for sisters, for anyone who's ever lost someone, for people who walk on bridges, and for everyone who's considered what it'd be like to jump. I hope very much that it gets produced in a theater near me, I would love to see it fully staged.

Twisted and so incredibly dark but I couldn’t stop reading it or stop myself from laughing, even though when I did chuckle I felt a good amount of guilt.