Recommended by Christine Foster

This has got to be everyone's nightmare. A car crash is graphically rendered with terrifyingly precise audio FX. The Father and Daughter are instantly likeable, and instantly endangered beyond survival. It's very moving, and upsetting and I wish there was a bit more of it.

"I thought maybe, just maybe, she was ready to accept me" This heart-breaking statement about a call from their mother sums up this affecting monologue about someone determined to go ahead with gender transitioning. The courage it takes to know you're going to lose friendship, support and understanding and still need to be true to yourself is portrayed with chilling clarity.

So many heartfelt thoughts here - the longing to take ultimate responsibility for one other (small) person - the needing to be needed - the warm and relatable dialogue on the required energy and sacrifices of motherhood. It's all there. And the TV dating game is a hoot. Lovely, charming and uplifting.

A wonderful, rambling pity party of a monologue interspersed with modern celebrity rhyming slang as a running gag. The actor listening to this self serving rant will have as much to do as the actor ranting, and in the end we find out why, and it's a hoot.

A jaded and student-weary drama professor struggles through a hopeless Hamlet hopeful's endless audition. Each relentlessly pursues their objective with hysterically obstinate energy and wit, ending with a truly clever resolve. Laugh out loud funny stuff.

"There is a destiny that shapes our ends..." and in this clever piece our daily destiny is literally in the hands of a pair of whimsical employees (of some unnamed organization) who can arbitrarily give us "the go ahead" (or not) as we struggle with frustration, delay and anticipation in the game of life. It's entertaining, well thought out, original and satisfying.

Wow. Intriguing, creepy and gripping. I loved the structure and the replays of alternate ways of looking at events. And the depiction of the shell-shock of grief, with all its intensity, ambiguity and confusion
becomes the perfect set up for the clever plot reveals as they begin to peel off in surprising and fascinating layers. Hugely enjoyable and well-crafted.

A quirky, clever piece with wise dialogue and great characters. The staging is imaginative and the storytelling intriguing. I love that it's based on a true story, one that is both startling and inherently dramatic. Very well done.

A darkly comic, inventive and terrifically visual piece. You feel frustrated for, and sympathetic to the normal, lonely, sane young people just trying to make a connection while being bullied by the latest popular tropes of how they should behave. The chatbots are intimidating, nasty, and all too believable. A great warning and a great ride.

Such a tender and perceptive way for the two young women to share their trauma not just with each other but with us as an audience. This short piece gave me chills, and made me feel both hopeful and helpless in equal measure. I'm lucky enough not to understand or identify with the desire to self-harm, but I'm grateful for such a sensitive visit with someone who does. Upsetting and important.