Recommended by Asher Wyndham

Now this is entertainment.
I was hooked from beginning to end and pleasantly surprised.
This may be the best noir short play I've read. Definitely one of my favorite short comedies on NPX.

This play tackles the divisive issue of abortion, surprisingly, through dark comedy, a biting satire that's unapologetically political and feminist. The kids-themed-party, complete with gift bags and cupcakes, is an unusual setting to address abortion, but it's one that forces us to imagine "maybe soon" a dystopian America for women who resort to DIY-at-home abortions. This play reminds us of the options and abortifacients used by women in the past to end pregnancy.
This is uncomfotable theatre - necessary theatre - dangerous theatre.
Read this, develop, produce, use it for protest.

It's poetic, but it doesn't feel contrived because the emotions feel so raw and real.
A great role for an elderly gay man.
This should be included in any showcase on AIDS or elderly gay issues.

It's like crossed between Hogwarts School for teenage fuckups (minus the magic) and Sarah Kane's sanitorium in the play Cleansed.
It's ugly, but pretty ugly, if that makes sense, in yer face with it, kind of like a video from My Chemical Romance.
There's an insensity to Zero's depression that many of us could relate to, that feeling of nothingness.
But there's a surprising hopefulness, a reminder that even when you're at your bottom, even when you feel powerless, there's someone to connect to. Read this!
The narrative structure offers designers a fun challenge.

Like this character I owe a lot in student loans (actually more!). At first I was humored. And then it hit me, this guy's struggle, his desperation, his terrible choice says a lot about all of us post-college and post-grad that are struggling, hoping for freedom from debt.
This subject of student loan debt needs to be explored more on the American stage.
Thank you Gacinski for addressing it.

Funny, uplifting, honest.
We need to hear this kind of struggle.
If you're producing a festival on body image, consider this.

This play made me think about what it means to be *safe*.
And feeling safe with friends that are kind of like a new family.
And creating that safe place kind of a way to escape whatever sucks in life, whatever doesn't make sense, whatever is difficult or confusing or cruel.
It's a beautiful play because it's hopeful.
It's a Queer time-travel comedy served with pie and coffee, with a lot of heart and imagination.
This would be a great play for designers - sound, media, prop, lighting.

With the pace of a comic book, incorporating flashbacks and present-day TED talk, this feminist play packs a punch. It humanizes Monica Lewinsky in a way that was illuminating. While doing that, this play confronts our slut-shaming arena of politics and entertainment. This really makes us think about the female narrative and how those in control in DC and beyond shape it, twist it, distort it so that the woman becomes not a survivor of abuse but the shameful one, the slut. Makes you think about the struggle traumatized women have trying to be understood. Like feminist theatre? Then download!

This solo short play is the best kind of theatre -- makes us uncomfortable. It forces us to question our relationship to the world and strangers, to question our lack of empathy and understanding and action on issues and problems. What are you going to do about it?
Our noise, our traffic silences the voices of the marginalized like those homeless man in this play.
This would be a great play for a sound designer.

Meth has done a fine job showcasing the narcissistic and psychotic personality of President Trump. His disregard for truth and morality and his ignorance of proper speech are on display in complete contrast to the great men of the past, those kings of American and world political history. It's ridiculously funny from beginning to end, but in the end I was left with nothing but disgust.
This is the kind of the play that can encourage an audience to get out to vote.