Recommended by Asher Wyndham

It's more than about a talking lobster because Lawing never forgets about empathy and emotion. I'd love to see an actor in a lobster costume bring this rare gem of a play to stage.

How to move from a position of ignorance to a position of acceptance and safety? This brief monologue explores that journey of change through a story about a trans child and their parent. This monologue could make some people really think again about parental rights in respects to a child's education differently and how the problem is really not school or the child but the parent.

A monologue for any actor, any adult age, any size, race, gender expression. Paulsen gifts us a poem-monologue that's super short but heavy in emotional impact, speaking for many of us that are disenchanted in our country disowning democracy. It's also inspirational and hopeful.

Character revealed through processing something traumatic or life-changing, after some big reveal -- that makes for great theatre. This is a fine example. An actor in her 60s should check this out.

Even if you're not a mother or grandmother, it's easy have empathy for this woman. Traditions come to an end, the need from our loved ones comes and goes, and the loneliness settles in. There's an emotional weight at the center of the piece that Hall captures perfectly. A great piece for an older actor.

A beautiful moment that a director and actors can fill with surprise, intimacy, humor, and physicality.

Sometimes sweetness, kindness and hospitality can be radical and transformative especially in toxic workplaces which are intersectional spaces of identities and ideologies. The speaker might not feel like a hero, realizes he is ignorant and needs to learn more, but his stance and opposition to trans hate makes him heroic. We need more monologues like this that stick a finger up at the haters everywhere.

This may be the best representation of Eve for the stage. With fierceness, rawness, this filthy mother of humanity is also full of love and pride. I can see this being a full-bodied performance owning the stage. A killer monologue for audience. Perfect for a female identifying actor or a drag queen.

We need more monologues like this that stand up at podium, in-yer-face against the political powers, the fascism that is going to war against sexual minorities. It calls for not just condemnation, but defiance and empathy -- much needed in this divided country.

For some marriage sacrifices independence, identity itself -- the "you" for "us." Martineau explores the emotional price that is paid for those who want out of marriage -- not forever, no, just for a bit -- even if it means adultery or, at least, flirtation at the Christmas tree sales lot. It's the thought-process about independence as transgression within marriage that is captivating in this monologue.