Heartburn by
3 Feb. 2024
“
Wow! This short three-hander roped me in from start to finish...is it, finished? Nope, you can't unhear this one. Bravo, Daniel Prillaman. ”
←
Nora Louise Syran
Recommended by Nora Louise Syran
- Punxsutawney Phil is Sick of This Shit: a monologue for a pissed off deity by3 Feb. 2024“ This rodent doesn't get enough respect. An adorably angry monologue. Well done. ”
- That Kind of Boy [a 1-minute play] by31 Jan. 2024“ Short and SWEET! ”
- Oh, No! I Flew Too Close to the Sun! by27 Jan. 2024“ Hysterical! Oh, poor people-pleasing Festus! Will he get his role of Icarus and the timing of his one line right or should have have signed up to play Sisyphus!? A fun meta-theatrical short play with superb moments for the sound and costume/props designers. Fun! ”
- TROUBLE MAKER by26 Jan. 2024“ Sister Eliesa tries to preserve an archive and a scandalous photo reappears... This sounds completely banal as an attempt of a synopsis as Charles Scott Jones's intriguing shifts in the chronology of this story keep us "cycling back to Nietzsche" in a most transfixingly visual, visceral and theatrical way --with "jungle-like echoes that move backward through time." This play is at times, absurd but then entirely logical. All at once. Quick paced and quotable and then another fantastic (as in remote from reality) notion takes hold. And we're off. Enter that stage horse again! ”
- The Care and Feeding of Restless Spirits by25 Jan. 2024“ Loved this! Felt like a feminist Blithe Spirit meets Stage Door. Four loveable females, one stage magician (who is metaphorically putting his woman in a box and sawing her in half!) and simple staging -- but with plenty of fun details for lights and sound. Kantor conjures up an enlightening and entertaining evening at the theatre. ”
- Sins of Emission (Monologue) by24 Jan. 2024“ Growing up is difficult enough without dreading the reason why your friends are dreaming about Marilyn Monroe and you are not. A poignant prequel to Donald E. Baker's play Best Friends. ”
- Next Stop Utopia by24 Jan. 2024“ Who could make the prospect of a character speaking to the Subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth exciting? Only Christopher Soucy. Bravo. ”
- UNHEARD by24 Jan. 2024“ Sometimes it takes an external force to push us along, hopefully in the right direction. Loved the use of the OVERHEAD VOICE. Bravo. ”
- Yours Until Niagara Falls by24 Jan. 2024“ An epistolary passage through history, through the exchanged notes, letters, phone calls and emails between Lina and Izzy. Technology and their communication with one another rushes us along with them toward the play's climax. Haas leaves us with such rich memories of two people we have come to know. intimately. Through allusions to history, religion, the Beatles, perms, Vietnam, theatre, music... their childhood hopes and dreams become ours. Lovely. ”