Recommended by Asher Wyndham

Has the power to break our hearts and remind us there are boys who are conflicted like this speaker, still. Another winning monologue exploring gay themes from Baker.

A slow burn of a play exploring stories of abuse. After some tension, a moment for openness and revelations, and surprising tenderness.

The historical sweep of generations in this monologue is stellar and thought-provoking. It's great one person play for a media and set designer

It's rare to have monologues starring theatre people. Their perspective may be about their occupation but it says more about their subscribers and society itself. Well done.

With a mystery under a bucket as a story concept and physical comedy from the start that hooks us, Busser explores one woman's mourning and grief with a rich emotional experience that's surprisngly relatable. Good theatre should surprise us with an empathetic experience. I just read it. Even better watching it with a live audience.

Plumridge has done it again -- capturing the voice of the unseen, the misunderstood through careful attention to thought process, place and time, personality and situation, word choice and rhythm. Deeply upsetting, painful and hopeless if only we don't help those experiencing homelessness in our cities. A smart choice for a theatre that partners with orgs interested in social change and talkback.

Sickles finds just the right kind of story and structure to showcase the interior lives of these characters. Their poetic language, which contrasts the rough and tough "real voices", comes from deep within, revealing not only their immediate emotions but also their entire lives since they met. It's a powerful and beautiful f'd up anti-romance play that says a lot about romance -- the power of love and desire, longings and regrets. This would make a great choice for your Valentines showcase.

This has the aura of a fable, of a time not present day. That is achieved wonderfully by the playwright's words, the careful construction of the speaker's observations and emotonal and intellectual state. Parents of children and young adults like the speaker Olly could relate. Our world, our schools and communities, hasn't figured out how the best way to protect and nuture people like Olly, and as a result sometimes devastating things happen because we fail to understand and care, instead dehumanize.

Add a little bit of evil and mischief to your Christmas showcase with this diabolical monologue. The entire setting and costuming would be a surprising sight after your typical characters on stage.

Give me ten thousand or more scripts with no author names, and I'd be able to find the one written by this playwright. He's a formidable talent with character building and dialog. He crafts more than just beautiful lines but also memorable lines on life, love and death, and it's also freaking hilarious.