Recommended by Kenneth N. Kurtz

What grand good theatrical fun....The Three Musketeers poured through the prism of Noises Off, as a third rate American "company" wanders blindfolded through Dumas's mad plot. Thank you T.J.Young for a lovely read and the hope of an imminent production.

Davy & Stu is the kind of poetic prose that all drama should be made of. And a superb example how to write in dialect through word choice and order alone without the need for any phonetic signals. Ten pages of boys by a bog yearning to touch. Thank you Anton Dudley.

A dazzling theatrical dive into the mind of George Orwell. Joe Sutton's electric dialogue transports us through now and then, from on-stage to off, and in and out of consciousness in a lightning fast 86 pages. I loved this play.

The Portrait is one of the best historical pieces that I have read on NPX. Paul Smith beautifully renders the cadences of Winston Churchill's speech and lets us delve into the faltering ego of a great man past his prime...plus a fine discourse on the art of portraiture. I'd love to see this with Gary Oldman playing Churchill and Cumberbatch as Sutherland. Spoiler alert: Mr. Smith is the publisher of many NPX plays, including some of mine. The Portrait should make us all grateful.

The German Play is the single funniest ten minutes that I have found on NPX. Two actors who know no German must none-the-less perform a play wonderfully miss-translated from its Teutonic text. Es ist eine wunderbar kurz spiele! (And with my surname I should know.)

Once More Onto The Beach is a piece of ten minute perfection, written by a guy who creates fine lucid, yet delightfully off-hand dialogue. Who knew a life's end could be so much fun?

It maketh me laugh right well. I even guffaweth. I thank thee Ken Levine.

Ken Levine has an ear perfectly tuned to period dialogue. Dating Through The Decades is a gem...a polished diamond in fact.

Finding Help is a fine trio of characters and ten pages of delightfully honest duplicity that one wishes it could continue and grow into a full length play,

There is a fine art to writing period dialogue. One should not wallow in the language of the past, but must not betray the cliches, or worse, the slang of the present. In this rendition of The Bell Witch, Rachael Carnes perfectly walks the linguistic tightrope, with ten minutes of a fine haunted tale.