Recommended by Jim Siering

A beautiful piece about the emotional baggage men inherit from their fathers and pass on to their children. It is a very raw and touching exploration of parenting, marriage, masculinity and the ability to communicate in an openly loving way.

Love is a game, and a pretty wacky one at that, and these two characters play game on top of game in this terrific short play. It’s funny and theatrical, and revealing in sly ways. I really enjoyed it.

What an interesting concept. Each reason for eating a cookie is familiar and resonant with layers of emotion and identification in the minds of the audience. And then there’s the act of eating the cookies. Or not. Cool.

Nice short slice of life play about an accidental meeting in an airport between exes, with two complex and nuanced roles for women, and excellent dialogue.

What a great absurdist idea to use a loaf of bread as a character in this tale of romance and betrayal. Very very funny and a couple of great roles.

This is a gut-wrenching tale of adolescent cruelty with deep echoes of both Lord of the Flies and Christian mythology. Chilling and exciting theatre.

This is docu-drama done well. It is a raw and un-adorned memorial to the victims of the Christchurch mass shooting. It does not force or plead a response, it simply lays bare the painful facts.

This play is so funny I couldn’t stop laughing at the character list. It perfectly captures the gleeful nonsense of Dada, and skewers the lengths consumers will go to get what they want. Great fun!

“ The Trouble with Mustard Greens” is a terrific monologue that functions as a two-hander between a young woman and her Punjabi mother who is cooking a traditional Indian dish offstage. Their relationship is revealed through the food: the ingredients, the recipes, the bond of cultural identity that both unites them and divides them. The writing is likewise both simple and complex.

This short play is outrageously funny and daring. Maxmilian Gill turns the phrase “ a stick up your ass” inside out by taking it absolutely literally in this satire of a boss- worker relationship.