Recommended by Asher Wyndham

  • Peripheral Resistance
    17 Jun. 2017
    This short drama has the depth and intensity that reminds me of Pinter's plays about couples. If you like Pinter's Ashes to Ashes or Marber's Closer, check out this play.
  • Surprise
    15 Jun. 2017
    A good play should always surprise us. This play does just that, page after page, with unexpected stage images and actions. The concept, the play within the play, and the theatricality of breaking up is definitively a hook for the reader.
  • Highway 16
    13 Jun. 2017
    More horrific than the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood it's based on. Barnett's f'd up tale is like what Kathy Acker did with classic stories. The more you find out about Granny and her "establishment" and Red's situation, you realize this twisted fairy tale is an allegory for modern human trafficking. If you're producing a festival of plays based on fairy tales, choose this play.
  • Dora's Dynamic Dates
    12 Jun. 2017
    A fun read with a hee-larious concept, a pleasure that reminded me of short plays by David Ives. This play is easy to produce, and deserves many productions.
  • INSERT TOKEN
    11 Jun. 2017
    Wacky like something out of the mind of Philip K Dick. The concept of the interrogation is wonderfully silly, but it's a smart way to examine the Internet's role in our lives. Makes you wonder..all those long hours connected to apps and websites, clicking on photos, watching cat videos, and all that personal data in the cloud... Who are we in the eyes of those that watch us, study us through all that connectivity and data consumption? Brilliant, funny, bravo.
  • Lake Untersee
    9 Jun. 2017
    I had the opportunity of seeing this delightful, magical play at the Minnesota Fringe Festival. Rocky, a highly imaginative Queer teenager, steals your heart immediately. His desire to connect with his pen-pal Charlie who's trapped far away under Antarctica's ice is painfully fraught with intensity. If you enjoyed Aditi Kapil's play Orange, you'll definitely like Lake Untersee! A perfect play for a scenic and lighting designer that wants a challenge.
  • SECRET'S OUT
    9 Jun. 2017
    In ten-minutes, Burdick's play addresses a wide range of subjects - parenting, female sexuality, male aging - without it feeling forced. And he does that by bringing two strangers of different ages and experiences together in an unlikely space -- outside a Victoria's Secret store. There, the conversation is strangely intimate, deep, real.
  • In Which a Famous Ice Skater Laces Up Her Skates on Her 17th Birthday - monologue
    1 Jun. 2017
    A touching monologue, just right for audition, about a figure skater desiring more out of life. It's like she wants to choreograph her own life off the ice. The playwright effectively captured in a little more than one page how trapped the young woman feels.
  • Pray for Surf - exercise instructor monologue
    1 Jun. 2017
    This is the perfect female monologue for audition! It's physical! This isn't a sitting-in-a-chair-talking-to-the-audience monologue, nope. It's hee-larious! Challenging! (There's a lot of movement, long lines) It's also a perfect monologue for any short comedy play festival. Perform it -- and be prepared to sweat and shake that body!
  • TABLE MANNERS IN CHICAGO
    31 May. 2017
    This is a thought-provoking short play with a captivating showdown. It makes me think about people in non-traditional relationships or people whose behavior, sexual or not, doesn't adhere to traditional moral standards. If someone is 'non-traditional' then does that person have a right to judge someone else who's 'non-traditional'?

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