Recommended by Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend

I was lucky enough to see Eclectic Full Contact Theatre’s production of this play, and it started out so silly and fun that it took me by surprise when Melissa started talking about her life and it became so beautiful and sad. I love the wide range of emotions this play made me feel- and Salvador got to bow with the ladies at the end, which was a perfect way to end this adorable short.

I love Aly Kantor’s writing. This short play is funny and sweet, with two lonely people who seem very different on the surface, but are incredibly similar deep down. My favorite part was the sharing of personal information, which got more and more vulnerable as it got more and more rapid fire. I would love to see a whole full length play with these two characters.

This short play does a wonderful job toggling between moments of comedy and drama, with some details (the single mozzarella stick!) that killed me. In most plays featuring two people and a waiter, the waiter is a largely thankless role, but in this play the waiter has some of my favorite moments. A lovely piece!

Wow, what a trip in only 8 pages! I went from, "Oh, this is cute," to "Oh, this is kind of profound," to "What? WHAT?" and now I'm sitting here contemplating the mysteries of life. What a perfect little play.

What a rollercoaster of emotions this monologue is! The sailor describes a truly horrifying experience in a storm with a perfect, unexpected, comedic button at the end. This would be lots of fun to hear an audience react to and also lots of fun to perform.

Sweet, poignant, and true. You know that - if things go according to plan - you will outlive the dog, but you adopt the dog and take it home and love it forever and always anyhow, even though, ultimately, you can’t keep it. A beautiful one-minute play.

I love this. This autobiographical coming of age story told through the lens of Shakespeare plays Gina Femia studied in school is wonderful. It reads like poetry in places, contains truly heartbreaking stories, and has moments of real hilarity that snuck up and surprised me. What a perfect piece for theater majors in particular, as there is so much to relate to here.

I'm the target audience for a play about a little-known President of the United States, but this play is for everyone. It makes the politics of the 1850s easy to understand and makes them feel fresh and current - plus it's a GHOST STORY. There's a ghost - well, there's lots of ghosts - and they're driving Franklin Pierce absolutely insane. This is a compelling story about a man drowning in grief at a pivotal moment in U.S. history. The way lighting and the ensemble are used here is awesome. I would love to see this live.

This short about grief, faith, luck, and love is very sweet and amazingly constructed. For such a short play, there's a full arc as we see Matthew and Leah today, flash back to yesterday, and jump forward to tomorrow. I love how hopeful the play is, despite the subject matter. It definitely leaves you with a lot to thing about and carry away. Beautiful!

You will never forget this monologue. I don’t want to give anything away, but this has maybe the best opening line ever, a fantastic button at the end, and a whole lot of delightful “What is this? Why is this happening?” in the middle.