Recommended by D. Lee Miller

  • D. Lee Miller: Swallowed by Rachel Bublitz
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    This play is intense from the moment it starts to the moment it ends - though it still feels it is going on. The characters, wedded to their aims are challenged every moment of the way -- Can the stakes get higher? Can we do something to help their goal of waking up the world to climate change? This problem lands in our laps. Well done.

    This play is intense from the moment it starts to the moment it ends - though it still feels it is going on. The characters, wedded to their aims are challenged every moment of the way -- Can the stakes get higher? Can we do something to help their goal of waking up the world to climate change? This problem lands in our laps. Well done.

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  • D. Lee Miller: The Final Debate by Rachel Bublitz
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    This well-written play carries you along a recognizable road until it blows you away with truth and reality. It is very meaningful regarding gun violence. The teenage roles would be welcome in any high school or adult theatre. Well done Bublitz.

    This well-written play carries you along a recognizable road until it blows you away with truth and reality. It is very meaningful regarding gun violence. The teenage roles would be welcome in any high school or adult theatre. Well done Bublitz.

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  • D. Lee Miller: CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 - Monologue by Elisabeth Giffin Speckman
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    A sensorial monologue that takes your body in from the moment you start reading through to the end. A meditation of Covid's final legacies... And a yearning to breathe.

    A sensorial monologue that takes your body in from the moment you start reading through to the end. A meditation of Covid's final legacies... And a yearning to breathe.

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  • D. Lee Miller: Brothers on a Hotel Bed (15 minute play) by Elisabeth Giffin Speckman
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    It's easy to recommend a play that has comedy, soulfulness anger and heart - Speckman's characterizations are sure and strong. Her dialogue is flawless. I was brought to tears at the end. This piece would be right for any theatre - and I hope it's done often.

    It's easy to recommend a play that has comedy, soulfulness anger and heart - Speckman's characterizations are sure and strong. Her dialogue is flawless. I was brought to tears at the end. This piece would be right for any theatre - and I hope it's done often.

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  • D. Lee Miller: Blind No. 7 by Philip Middleton Williams
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    Another loving family play - where nothing happens and everything happens. Williams once again shares an organic revealing story that is very touching. Nicely done.

    Another loving family play - where nothing happens and everything happens. Williams once again shares an organic revealing story that is very touching. Nicely done.

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  • D. Lee Miller: How to Tie a Cravat (a monologue) (Playing on the Periphery #2) by Scott Sickles
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    A beautiful response to a brutal take down by another boy, Bertram is already smarter than his eight years. Kudos to such a skilled writer as Sickles, who clears the emotional path step by step. I like this boy a lot, his heart and his smarts. Well done.

    A beautiful response to a brutal take down by another boy, Bertram is already smarter than his eight years. Kudos to such a skilled writer as Sickles, who clears the emotional path step by step. I like this boy a lot, his heart and his smarts. Well done.

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  • D. Lee Miller: Persephone by Scott Sickles
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    A daughter and mother meeting for the first time have a million questions. In Persephone, Scott Sickles, one of the funniest writers around, introduces us and them to each other and all of us are ultimately more than satisfied. What a barrel of fun for any theatre to produce!

    A daughter and mother meeting for the first time have a million questions. In Persephone, Scott Sickles, one of the funniest writers around, introduces us and them to each other and all of us are ultimately more than satisfied. What a barrel of fun for any theatre to produce!

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  • D. Lee Miller: ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE (from the MAD FOR MYSTERY Collection) by Vivian Lermond
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    To the point, Constance needs to get over her probable-ex-husband. But how to get rid of the pain? Her roommate knows! Lermond writes a short play - we think we know where it's going but -- we don't. Score another hit for Lermond!

    To the point, Constance needs to get over her probable-ex-husband. But how to get rid of the pain? Her roommate knows! Lermond writes a short play - we think we know where it's going but -- we don't. Score another hit for Lermond!

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  • D. Lee Miller: NEW MOON by Vivian Lermond
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    This is a poetic recognition of a woman’s natural geography, a mapping of her Inner and outer live’s possible terrains. It’s beautiful.

    This is a poetic recognition of a woman’s natural geography, a mapping of her Inner and outer live’s possible terrains. It’s beautiful.

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  • D. Lee Miller: Cake by Jacquelyn Floyd-Priskorn
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    I like this play partly for how different it is. There are characters we don't always see that are warm and sad and painful like the situation. On top of which, it is well-written, too. Nice work by Jacquelyn Floyd-Priskorn.

    I like this play partly for how different it is. There are characters we don't always see that are warm and sad and painful like the situation. On top of which, it is well-written, too. Nice work by Jacquelyn Floyd-Priskorn.

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