Recommended by Dakota Pariset

  • Ahavah

    by Dana Hall and David Lipschutz

    This is a truly beautiful short play. Hall & Lipschutz effectively balance grief and the effects the death of a loved one has on an individual, as well as a romantic relationship, and personal acceptance with sharp, well executed comedic writing. A touching, affecting, and informing piece of theatre through the Jewish end-of-life experience, that truly lives up to the name.

    This is a truly beautiful short play. Hall & Lipschutz effectively balance grief and the effects the death of a loved one has on an individual, as well as a romantic relationship, and personal acceptance with sharp, well executed comedic writing. A touching, affecting, and informing piece of theatre through the Jewish end-of-life experience, that truly lives up to the name.

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    “Fireflies” is a truly beautiful short play. McShane has a great knack for addressing the heavier themes of things like mortality, the afterlife, and the transience of our what we leave behind, and in that meditation, still finds the hope of it all. A very malleable and recommended piece for festival or featured production.

    “Fireflies” is a truly beautiful short play. McShane has a great knack for addressing the heavier themes of things like mortality, the afterlife, and the transience of our what we leave behind, and in that meditation, still finds the hope of it all. A very malleable and recommended piece for festival or featured production.

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    What a romp! Lermond paints the quintessential Christmas with the in-laws. An all-too-relatable, mini-Dante's Inferno that's balanced wonderfully in the call-to-memory and narrative response, and an hilarious wrap up, segued into a lovely button of an ending with Bing Crosby to send us home.

    What a romp! Lermond paints the quintessential Christmas with the in-laws. An all-too-relatable, mini-Dante's Inferno that's balanced wonderfully in the call-to-memory and narrative response, and an hilarious wrap up, segued into a lovely button of an ending with Bing Crosby to send us home.

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    beautifully set up with a sweet pay-off. This is a lovely, accessible piece for anyone who wants to brighten up an audience at a cabaret or open mic!

    beautifully set up with a sweet pay-off. This is a lovely, accessible piece for anyone who wants to brighten up an audience at a cabaret or open mic!

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    Holy s**t! Buckle up and settle in for a wildly raucous and epic multi-layered piece, reminiscent of the dysfunction and scope of Chekhovian theatre. Cooper gives us so many juicy morsels to chew on throughout, supported by biting, desperately loving(albeit doomed)relationships and the beautiful imagery and placement of a time and a place deep in all of us(and our world) that eats away at the core when attention isn't paid, all built into this broken home we get to spend(gleefully) 90 minutes in.

    Holy s**t! Buckle up and settle in for a wildly raucous and epic multi-layered piece, reminiscent of the dysfunction and scope of Chekhovian theatre. Cooper gives us so many juicy morsels to chew on throughout, supported by biting, desperately loving(albeit doomed)relationships and the beautiful imagery and placement of a time and a place deep in all of us(and our world) that eats away at the core when attention isn't paid, all built into this broken home we get to spend(gleefully) 90 minutes in.

  • Dakota Pariset: Ahavah by David Lipschutz and Dana Hall
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    This is a truly beautiful short play. Hall & Lipschutz effectively balance grief and the effects the death of a loved one has on an individual, as well as a romantic relationship, and personal acceptance with sharp, well executed comedic writing. A touching, affecting, and informing piece of theatre through the Jewish end-of-life experience, that truly lives up to the name.

    This is a truly beautiful short play. Hall & Lipschutz effectively balance grief and the effects the death of a loved one has on an individual, as well as a romantic relationship, and personal acceptance with sharp, well executed comedic writing. A touching, affecting, and informing piece of theatre through the Jewish end-of-life experience, that truly lives up to the name.

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