Recommended by Asher Wyndham

Wow, you'll be wiping away tears throughout this monologue. You get to know not only the father character but the playwright himself in a few pages, and the weight of the loss, the rawness of mourning is still felt after the last word. One of the most honest monologues I have read on NPX. A smart choice for a festival on fatherhood or parenting.

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.

This play exposes the public school system as corrupt and flawed as the corporate world. With a complex woman at the center, this writer articulates and advocates for a better education for our children, for solutions to instruction, standardized testing, grading and evaluation. It's depressing at times, but even with the outcome, there's a bit of hope, a push thst a community of parents and teachers need in order to move in the right direction.

Not only do these gay - bear - characters rarely see the stage, these characters on the spectrum rarely do. The combination is comic gold and an emotionally complex relationship. I can't wait for the next installment!

When you're most miserable sometimes the poet comes out of you. This eloquent monologue about life under capitalism has an emotional punch that many can relate to. Short but not skimpy on substance.

This will be a fun piece for a scenic designer. And the audience will recognize themselves while laughing. Structurally and emotionally it works. I can see this playing in different cities around the world and open to interpretation.