Recommended by Lindsay Kennedy

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    A remarkable, brutal, beautiful play. This play tackles topics and engages with characters that aren't often presented onstage, much less presented with such skill and nuance. Cain never shies away from the complicated or ugly, but because of the honesty of her work and the deep flaws of her characters, they are all the more relatable and engaging to watch. Read. This. Now.

    A remarkable, brutal, beautiful play. This play tackles topics and engages with characters that aren't often presented onstage, much less presented with such skill and nuance. Cain never shies away from the complicated or ugly, but because of the honesty of her work and the deep flaws of her characters, they are all the more relatable and engaging to watch. Read. This. Now.

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    Heartbreaking. Hilarious. Human. Honest.

    This is one of the best ten-minute plays I have had the good luck to experience. Read it right now.

    Heartbreaking. Hilarious. Human. Honest.

    This is one of the best ten-minute plays I have had the good luck to experience. Read it right now.

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    A staggering, taut family drama that takes the audience on a journey through time. It is incredible how much story is told in ten minutes in this darkly comic and wonderfully grotesque play. The moment you think you know where this story is going, it gets you with a gut punch ending. Give this a read!

    A staggering, taut family drama that takes the audience on a journey through time. It is incredible how much story is told in ten minutes in this darkly comic and wonderfully grotesque play. The moment you think you know where this story is going, it gets you with a gut punch ending. Give this a read!

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    A wonderful, atmospheric play about two people whose history goes a lot deeper than the audience ever expected. This is a twisty, turny thriller in the Southern Gothic tradition. Give this one a read!

    A wonderful, atmospheric play about two people whose history goes a lot deeper than the audience ever expected. This is a twisty, turny thriller in the Southern Gothic tradition. Give this one a read!

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    A charming, touching, hilarious riff on the boy detective tales we know and love. This play deals with two hurting people finding a way to come together in grief, and it proves once and for all that friends that solve mysteries together, stay together.

    A charming, touching, hilarious riff on the boy detective tales we know and love. This play deals with two hurting people finding a way to come together in grief, and it proves once and for all that friends that solve mysteries together, stay together.

  • Lindsay Kennedy: A Firework Unexploded by Dave Osmundsen
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    A truly lovely moment in two people's lives. The way the words fall over each other in a perfect confusion of feeling when the characters try and fail to express themselves is wonderful. This play leaves you making up your own stories where the characters go next.

    A truly lovely moment in two people's lives. The way the words fall over each other in a perfect confusion of feeling when the characters try and fail to express themselves is wonderful. This play leaves you making up your own stories where the characters go next.

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  • Lindsay Kennedy: Portrait of a Woman's Tears by Katherine Gwynn
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    A sharp look at motherhood, mental illness, and the effect on women when others make them bear all of the emotional burden. None of that sounds particularly funny, but this play deals with all of it with a wonderfully clever sense of humor.

    A sharp look at motherhood, mental illness, and the effect on women when others make them bear all of the emotional burden. None of that sounds particularly funny, but this play deals with all of it with a wonderfully clever sense of humor.

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  • Lindsay Kennedy: The Impracticality of Modern-Day Mastodons by Rachel Teagle
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    A poignant, funny, emotional, and whimsical play about finding meaning and achieving your dreams as an adult.

    A poignant, funny, emotional, and whimsical play about finding meaning and achieving your dreams as an adult.

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  • Lindsay Kennedy: Eureka Day by Jonathan Spector
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    Eureka Day tackles current issues in a way that is truthful, funny, and moving. It addresses fake news and the distrust of media, the anti-vaxxer movement, internet discourse, and personal bias. No matter how educated people are, we still have biases. This script shows when these deeply held beliefs are challenged by facts, rather than rethinking them we often hold onto them tighter. Wonderful, powerful, blisteringly comical.

    Eureka Day tackles current issues in a way that is truthful, funny, and moving. It addresses fake news and the distrust of media, the anti-vaxxer movement, internet discourse, and personal bias. No matter how educated people are, we still have biases. This script shows when these deeply held beliefs are challenged by facts, rather than rethinking them we often hold onto them tighter. Wonderful, powerful, blisteringly comical.

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