Recommended by Asher Wyndham

One of the zaniest plays I've read on NPX. Your audience will have fun debating the significance of the Bread, but they'll have more fun just sitting back, cracking up as this ridiculous comedy unfolds to its inevitable, yet surprising showdown. Perfect for black box theatres in colleges and any comedy showcase.

Definitely in the top ten of socks puppet plays. This is hilarious fun from start to finish as it makes the most of the film noir genre. This will appeal to anyone who's lost socks and wonders about this -- one of the great mysteries of the world. Producers: I highly recommend a sock puppet play festival with this as one of the selected plays.

This is the kind of one-minute play that shuts up the haters, silences those in the theatre world that diss and dismiss this genre as slight or with whatever criticism. There's so much in this little gem that many ten-minute plays do not have. Check it out. Let this be your support for arguing at your season planning meeting why you should produce a one-minute play festival.

This short monologue hits you hard in the heart. Those that lost a love one to gun violence or not could relate to the scene and restraint and burst of emotions. This woman's anger is also our own at the system that doesn't care about children in the crosshairs. Read and consider this for your staged reading or production on gun control.

This was a great laugh!
The language in this play, the Internet slang and reference to emojis, will be so much fun for an actor.
A one minute comedy that's not slight, makes you think about our obsession to the Internet, technology, and fame and the huge price to pay if we stop making real connections and stop enjoying life offline.

If you're not reading Hageman's plays, if she's not on your radar, if you're not commissioning her, you're doing yourself a disservice. This play showcases her special approach to structure, spectacle and language. Constantly in awe.

Only a few playwrights turn your heart and eyes to the rights and abuses of animals, the caging and manipulation of defenseless animals.
It's about time more theatres put on stage the lives of pets, farm animals and wild animals -- these creatures should be a necessary part of political theatre!
If you're producing a show about animals, with actors playing animals, please consider O'Grady's parakeet monologue as well as her other animal monologues.
Her animal monologues are great challenges for actors and designers (costume, prop, and scenic).

This play really made think about stagnation in long term relationships and the taboo of cheating/infedility. It made me think about the possibility that having another partner may provide something someone else can't, and that is all right, not immoral. Maybe in a perfect world people don't have to be so quiet about wanting sex or at least some kind of intimate connection with another person while in a relationship.
A perfect acting exercise for beginning actors and a smart choice for any festival on relationships/intimacy.
Flawless playwriting, again.

It'd be so much fun to see two actors wiggling on stage as worms! There's fleeting joy and horror, buddy comedy and arresting drama, and a thrilling attempted escape -- all in one-minute!

Whatever side you take, love pickles or hate them, you'll love this comic, myth-inspired one-minute play. There's always something surprising in a Weaver short. Check this one out. Better, read his other one-minute plays and produce an evening of them.