Recommended by Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend

I love an unlikely love story! This short and silly play has great dialogue and high stakes, but there is still time for the most ridiculous poem. Zany and fabulous!

I got to hear the first 26 pages of this read a while back, and I have been waiting to find out how in the world it was going to end. It is so deeply weird and twisted and suspenseful that I truly had no idea how it would possibly all resolve in the end. What a play! And what a fun concept, to have an actor playing someone on videotape, being fast-forwarded and rewound in places. What a great physicality challenge for an actor, and what fun visuals for an audience!

I love this, I loooove it. It's one of those plays without a single throwaway line, where what is said and what is unsaid carry equal weight. David Hilder makes it look effortless, but this is a masterclass in storytelling. What a gift to a pair of actors, who get to use their inflections, body language, and David's stellar dialogue to tell the story, with very little to lean on by way of props and sound effects. Amazing.

The perfection of this short fantasy play! I love the juxtaposition of the very flowery, fantasy-book-character-speak with the more contemporary language. The information we need to know is gathered in such skillful ways that you don't even realize you're being given exposition, and I love how human and relatable all three characters are (despite being elves). Even Úrrél, by the end, feels familiar. It's grand, it's funny, and it's touching all rolled together and delivered in ten minutes.

Oooh! This monologue by Persephone reads like poetry. I love the juxtaposition of the pomegranate seeds with her dialogue about seeds in the ground. What a beautiful dramatic monologue! This would be a great audition piece.

The comedic dialogue in this short play rockets along as John asks some very good questions and Chris shrugs them each off in turn. This is a lot of fun.

This short play is exactly the same as Brent Alles's other short play entitled "Erstwhile," except in this one all the characters are cats, cat-related puns abound, and every so often an extra "Meow" is tossed at the end of a line. It is the goofiest thing I have read in a long time. I adore it.

"I can't change who you are. I can only engrave." This short play is the best kind of bonkers. Fun and funny, sweet and silly. If I were watching an evening of Christmas shorts and this one appeared, it would be such a quirky, delightful change of pace, and one that would stick with me. Bizarre in the most fantastic way.

Oooh I love this! A woman in a medically induced coma after an accident gets some advice from the dispassionate part of her brain. This fantastic premise leads to a very funny play which I was immediately invested in, rooting for the Bellas to achieve their goal.

The dialogue in this short is fantastic! A woman has hired a hitman (of sorts) and is trying to figure out what exactly said hitman is going to do. I love how it moves and how nothing is spelled out, but is instead revealed just enough for you to keep up. Wholly captivating, wholly unique.