Recommended by Steven Christopher McKnight

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    The play is somewhat of a Herculean task, as epics tend to be. It's a play that almost requires you to develop a relationship with it to fully understand and take in. As such a play that plays with time, space, gender, and personification, every audience member gets something different out of it. I saw this play a couple times at Binghamton University, which worked to its benefit. Having a whole department digest this play over the course of a semester made it such a remarkable shared experience. Recommended especially for universities.

    The play is somewhat of a Herculean task, as epics tend to be. It's a play that almost requires you to develop a relationship with it to fully understand and take in. As such a play that plays with time, space, gender, and personification, every audience member gets something different out of it. I saw this play a couple times at Binghamton University, which worked to its benefit. Having a whole department digest this play over the course of a semester made it such a remarkable shared experience. Recommended especially for universities.

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    This is an excellent monologue play, full of evocative dialogue and imagery. I found the two moments of pseudo-artistic objectification--both taking place while things are being excreted from the body--to be a unique through-line that I'm struggling to describe. It's an interesting piece of theatre, and I would love to see what an actress and a director would be able to do with it. The final beat is bright and earned, and I appreciate Shealy's ability to bring everything to a conclusion that doesn't come out of nowhere.

    This is an excellent monologue play, full of evocative dialogue and imagery. I found the two moments of pseudo-artistic objectification--both taking place while things are being excreted from the body--to be a unique through-line that I'm struggling to describe. It's an interesting piece of theatre, and I would love to see what an actress and a director would be able to do with it. The final beat is bright and earned, and I appreciate Shealy's ability to bring everything to a conclusion that doesn't come out of nowhere.

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    Competently-written. Leaves a lot of the given circumstances to subtext, which I really enjoyed. This is really some incredible work!

    Competently-written. Leaves a lot of the given circumstances to subtext, which I really enjoyed. This is really some incredible work!

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    Never before have I read a more vulgar, sacrilegious piece of drama, and I fucking love it. Erin Proctor's piece crackles with remarkable dialogue that's equal parts humorous and meaningful. Every character arc is well-traced, and every character is well-developed. Although I am neither LGBTQA+ nor Jewish, I found the cynicism toward scriptural narrative to be a remarkable way in for most readers. On that note, the LGBTA+ elements of the script are well-managed to challenge the heteronormative narrative of the source material. I dig it. Please, please give this piece a read.

    Never before have I read a more vulgar, sacrilegious piece of drama, and I fucking love it. Erin Proctor's piece crackles with remarkable dialogue that's equal parts humorous and meaningful. Every character arc is well-traced, and every character is well-developed. Although I am neither LGBTQA+ nor Jewish, I found the cynicism toward scriptural narrative to be a remarkable way in for most readers. On that note, the LGBTA+ elements of the script are well-managed to challenge the heteronormative narrative of the source material. I dig it. Please, please give this piece a read.

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    I'm enjoying how the pandemic has given rise to a kind of new absurdist renaissance. This is an excellent piece about the snake-eating-its-own-tail that is our education system during this pandemic. Really digging this.

    I'm enjoying how the pandemic has given rise to a kind of new absurdist renaissance. This is an excellent piece about the snake-eating-its-own-tail that is our education system during this pandemic. Really digging this.

  • Steven Christopher McKnight: Alexander the Great - a ten minute play by James C. Ferguson
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    I shan't lie, this is one of the most hilarious one-acts I've read this year. Gives me Monty Python vibes. Anyway, Ferguson did a wonderful job with this piece, and I can't wait to read more from this author!

    I shan't lie, this is one of the most hilarious one-acts I've read this year. Gives me Monty Python vibes. Anyway, Ferguson did a wonderful job with this piece, and I can't wait to read more from this author!

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  • Steven Christopher McKnight: Haggis by Ava Love Hanna
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    I don't know how people come up with ideas like these. The thought process just baffles and amazes me, but that's the magic of farce, isn't it? This piece embraces the absurdity of foreign travel, and throws suspension of disbelief entirely out the window, as all decent farces do.

    I don't know how people come up with ideas like these. The thought process just baffles and amazes me, but that's the magic of farce, isn't it? This piece embraces the absurdity of foreign travel, and throws suspension of disbelief entirely out the window, as all decent farces do.

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  • Steven Christopher McKnight: Lombardo by David Hansen
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    It's hilarious, snappy, and charmingly meta. It turns its own genre on its head, taking biographic metatheatre and the weird pseudoexpositional dialect it speaks in and making a brazen mockery of that. "Three actors" killed me.

    It's hilarious, snappy, and charmingly meta. It turns its own genre on its head, taking biographic metatheatre and the weird pseudoexpositional dialect it speaks in and making a brazen mockery of that. "Three actors" killed me.

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  • Steven Christopher McKnight: Lies by Jerry Slaff
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    There is an insurmountable and skillfully-cultivated through-line of tension to this play. This script is such a unique experience, and has you second-guessing every single line of dialogue as it happens. Overall, one of the best scripts I've read this year.

    There is an insurmountable and skillfully-cultivated through-line of tension to this play. This script is such a unique experience, and has you second-guessing every single line of dialogue as it happens. Overall, one of the best scripts I've read this year.

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  • Steven Christopher McKnight: Light by Rachel Luann Strayer
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    Every line is well-written and perfectly measured for maximum dramatic effect. Its brevity is its potency.

    Every line is well-written and perfectly measured for maximum dramatic effect. Its brevity is its potency.

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