Recommended by Asher Wyndham

So much is achieved in a short amount of time: more than a handful of scenes, including dream sequences, present the life of Juliette, a civil rights activist. Her moral courage to speak against systemic racism and violence against African-Americans in the 1950s -- her fearlessness and her calls for justice and actions of disobedience will definitely be inspirational to many audience members. This play is theatre-for-social-change at its most powerful; it can do more than elicit a talkback; it can force us, especially white people, to fight for a future free of cruelty, injustice, and discrimination. Read this now!

This play captures something sad about the lives of gay teens not out to family members -- using sex apps like Grindr like some rite of passage, and the only way to make a connection with other people like them because they can't make a connection with a family member. This play is not just about that theme; check out this absorbing drama for the shocking twist that I didn't see coming. And then you'll probably hope like me this incredible scene is part of a full-length. Bravo.

Existenstial trauma -- and autophobia -- with a Beckettian sensibility. There are too many boring monologues that are just story-telling with no particular setting, no action, lack of intensity, lack of character development; you don't get that with a monologue from Partain. This experimental monologue's setting (a room of mirrors) and its philosophizing/stream-of-consciousness is a rarity. Check it out. This would an interesting monologue to see performed in a museum or gallery because its set would be a work-of-art.

A play like this forces us to remember not just those lost to school shootings, but also survivors. Their trauma lasts forever, it changes families, effects how they relate to others in the community. In this play, a play that no one should have to write, wakes us up, makes us wonder about the future -- innocence/childhood/adolesence marked by gun violence, death, and evil. If children are America's future, then many of them will be traumatized just like Jordan. A powerful play that's a smart choice for a festival on gun control.

Marvelous study of two women separated by age and experiences, each with their own desires and dreams, meeting briefly in an ordinary restaurant, and for one woman the appearance of the other becomes a lesson, a truth revealed. A play with a structure, part monologue with a short scene, that I've never read before.

Thoroughly satisfying. The whodunit mystery, the unanswered questions, Ceil's sexy extra-marital affair, the vignette structure that breaks with realism -- it keeps you turning the pages -- all the way to the shocking end. The language seemed like it blended William Inge with crime noir. Check out this award-winning play. Even better, produce it.

Bublitz's powerful TYA play could do more than elicit empathy -- it could do more than make an audience angry at the sad state of our country under the Second Amendment; it could inspire students in school and their parents to take action, to keep school safety at the top of priorities and demand change from the powerful people in the community. The PTSD-like trauma theatricalized in this play is today's reality for all schoolchildren -- this play reminds you of that. Perfect for a gun control festival. Highly recommended.

This will be a lot of fun for one minute festivals across the country but also beginning directing classes. Kids would love to do this in their first theatre class. Clever concept.

This is play is proof why a theatre should commission Weaver to write short plays. With a comic sensibility that David Ives would appreciate and a theatrical spectacle that would win the evening, his short plays are some of the best entertainments and distractions on the planet, maybe the entire universe. Read it, share it, produce it now. And check out his other plays that have been produced all over the country.

This play makes you wonder about those conversations you never had, the moments when you could've learned more about a loved one. The belongings left behind by loved ones that passed away are not junk, they're artifacts, icons, but sadly it's too late. This play could inspire audience members to ask about a family member's stuff, no matter how strange. A smart choice for a festival on family themes.