Recommended by Marj O'Neill-Butler

If you want to smile for 10 minutes, read/produce this play. Roles are reversed and laughter ensues as the seniors sound more like teens. Talk about woke...these oldies are totally with it! It's no wonder it has been produced and won festivals.

Yay for the Princess! This tiny play can relate to all that ails us in current society.

Remembering a moment is sometimes difficult to deal with when that moment has passed. Love lost is always hard and this short monologue explains that well. A bench sat upon will always hold those memories...that moment in time.

I find this short play so very sad, but very realistic. I wanted Jessa to run down the street at the end, but would she find Harry? Is there any hope anyway without good counseling? The dialogue is real and painful and one's heart aches for Harry to find some happiness...any happiness.

This play is really not about swans...well they are in it, but the real themes are about love and friendship and rescue. And it is site specific which is so fun, especially if you've been to Boston's Public Garden. Have a listen at Gather By the Ghost Light podcast where ever you listen.to podcasts.

Sometimes people just have enough. That's Edie in Ollett's play about living too long and suffering too much. There is an interesting in the middle of the piece which takes us in a new direction. Sad but truthful piece.

COME DAWN is a little bit of wartime history...the story of a young man stressed out by the war and running away from a battle. It reinforces the futility and horrors of war as the fight between the Ukraine and Russia goes on.

Happily, I have known families like this who bring everyone closer through food when there is grief on the menu. You can smell and yes, almost taste what's cooking in that kitchen.

Canine Confidential is a delightful short short. Haven't we all wanted to be "picked" in our life time? Mutt and Pedigree are desperate to find a fur-ever home. When they finally team up, everything looks hopeful.

This is a sweet holiday play. I'm sure Norbert the Bear will be happy being back in the care of Old Emma. It has an all female cast.