Recommended by Asher Wyndham

A comedy in darkness - about workplace dynamics - about communication, collaboration, trust (or blind trust), ridiculous standard work practices. Everyone who's had a sucky job can relate. Another stellar addition to a growing body of work that demands attention by theatremakers nationwide.

I had the pleasure of hearing this funny play at the 2018 William Inge Festival. You may at first not relate to the crazy brother revealing his latest idea to make money, even though his charm and energy wins you over immediately. At the end, you may feel an affinity with this loser. Great title, realistic dialog, distinct characters, and plenty of laughs.

I heard a reading of this play at the 2018 Willian Inge Festival in Kasnas. It was one of the best structured plays at the festival -- I think it was flawless in how it progressed to its disturbing ending. The characters -- Nova, Fogle, and Andy - had distinct voices and personalities. Its theme on survival - the fittest survive, the others are discarded - is satire for what's going on today, but it's also a warning for the future. Highly recommended for a sci-fi festival.

I was fortunate to hear a reading of this beautiful play at the 2018 William Inge Festival in Kansas. The evocative setting in Hawaii expressed through language, the mythology and ritual in this setting, the characters thoughts on love make for a powerful, poetic play. A scenic designer would love to tackle this play.

This play. This play will leave a sludge-smudge on your sub-conscious. An electric shock to your system just like the electric shock the titular character experiences in the swamp land setting. You'll get that shock several times in the reading This play makes 99.99% of plays safe and conservative in comparison. It's a difficult challenge - and that is a good thing - for all designers. You may have never encountered such an evocative, twisted, erotic, disturbing, provoking, poignant play like this before. Check it out now.

One of best worst plays I've read! The digressions, the meta-theatrical element, the accents, the genre mixing, characters dissin' the playwright -- it's all over the place -- like many hodgepodge plays these days. I was more entertained by this than by many 'better' - well-made - ten-minute plays. I wouldn't be surprised if this play is produced at 'bad play' festivals across the country.

This play had me dangling and climbing the rope ladder with the characters. Ahhh! A fun take on the classic myth. This would be a fun and challenging play for beginning actors and directors to explore, if they had a rope ladder. This play shows that Partain excels at the short short play with unexpected use of space, physicality, tension, and quick character development to create an amusing spectacle.

Although it's set pre-cellphones, this 10-minute black comedy, parodying Mametian behavior, reflects society now, not just the white-collar corporate world like that of life insurance agents - it speaks to our cut-throat competition, that insatiable greediness, the valuing of the monetary and the material over human life and dignity. A great ensemble piece for a short play - most 10-minute plays are just for two actors. Highly recommended.

A play that may inspire people to do more than just vote -- actually inspire people talk to others about being their grievances and their disenchanted these days with the political system. A smart choice for Get-Out-The-Vote initiative from Protest Plays Project.

HIghly recommended 10-minute that exposes -- through humor -- a longstanding problem with feminism, even now in the age of #metoo movement: its ideology and rhetoric (styled since the early days of the Suffragettes (serves the interests of white women, and it's ignorant of the realities of other women -- women of color. A conversation-starter, a smart choice for any festival on women, politics, and social issues. The ending, a transformation through costuming, was totally expected; this spectacle serves to make its point more poignant, its criticism more severe. Well done!