Recommended by Christine Foster

Great fun, great pace, and also downright believable, this is a monologue of total overwhelm, provocation and confusion and lack of control in a world of every imaginable iteration of family stress. Makes you want to catch your breath, which you do when it's neatly paid off at the end.

Very moving duologue about telling the truth while you can, and letting go, as important for the living as for the dying. Lovely parts for two women of different generations, struggling to say hello and goodbye at the same time.

I would love to see this staged. A clever, absurd, black comedy in two scenes with surprising depth of characterization and plot in such a short piece. Great fun. Equally wonderful for schools or for any adult evening of shorts.

A very real and at times raw duologue between two middle-aged sisters, clearing out their mother's house, their own childhood home, after her death. While admitting how much their mother changed through the years they also discover that memory is deceptive (and a bitch) and that intimate connections are the greatest treasure.

A comic snapshot of a misunderstanding that takes a clever U-turn that leaves everyone happy. Smooth and satisfying as a good shot of Bourbon.

A young actress lets fly with the frustration of the constantly judged, labeled and rejected -"I am the purveyor of magic, electrifying emotions, seismic sentiments and full-throttled word scapes!" A strong monologue that allows the performer a great range of emotion and delivers a powerful twist on self appreciation and dignity.

Cathro's dialogue is warm, perceptive and real, and there's a strong arc to the story which lifts it way beyond a conversation between a teen and her mom. (Okay, I had to look up "Brony", I admit, what a laugh.) A lovely ten minute play that delivers wisdom with a smile.

Fresh, imaginative, well put together and a wee bit trippy...in a good way! Weaver's characters are sympathetic and real even when caught in a surreal comic red licorice smoothie of a play like this one. Great pace and dialogue and terrific fun all round.

Entertaining and clever with strong (intergenerational) parts for women - crafted and plotted with skill, suspense, irony, and great dialogue. And it's about the supernatural and life and death and philosophy and relationships and all sorts of things that matter.

Sad and thoughtful, with overtones and hints at some of the darker places the current COVID events and current and future controls could yet take us. And what better place to consider dreams, memories and the ghosts of what might have been than in a shuttered theatre?