Recommended by Rachel Feeny-Williams

The moment I saw the title I knew this play was for me! The opening stage directions already had me grinning and then Daniel provides the gift of his brilliantly witty dialogue between the characters. As though a child interrupting a ritual of a Satanic nature wasn't funny enough, the dialogue just keeps giving and giving (with Joanna's being hilarious) until you are brought to the brilliantly funny ending. Its a fabulously written piece that is sure to have you laughing out loud!

Get ready to giggle....a lot. The farcical nature of this comedic piece is brilliantly done. Just when you think you have figured out what is going on you get another twist and that is how you are left giggling at the end. This piece would be greatly loved by an audience and brilliant fun to perform. I think it could also make a full length play brilliantly if the writer was to expand the story.

By the bottom of the first page I was hooked to this piece, with a determination to know what was going to happen (always a good start for a play!). As the mystery unravelled, I found myself more and more enthralled by the mystery and the intense dialogue between the three characters. The rollercoaster of 'is it real or not' is a great mechanism through this play and then by the end you are presented with a fabulous ending that will have you going 'oooo'. This is a fabulous piece and will definitely not be the last one I read!

So pretty much from the beginning of this piece I was giggling out loud. Skye's 'youthful' language is brilliantly funny and gets steadily more hilarious as the play goes through. The farcical journey would be hilarious to watch and is sure to have the audience laughing and leaving with one question on their minds....what happened in Barcelona? Another brilliant piece by Neil that would make a great addition to a one act play festival.

Theatre Zoom meetings have very much become part of our lives over the past two years and Julie has captured that brilliantly. It got me thinking almost nostalgically about the start of the pandemic when the panic buying was all over the news. The dialogue is great as you get to watch the characters go back and forth, each chiming their two cents worth in about the pandemic and what to do. The dialogue then whisks through an escalation of tense argument before nestling into a lovely ending. I think this would make a piece to watch and reflect on.

A most intriguing piece that will leave any audience thinking about their own lives and how close they are to being 'ready'. Staging is simplistic which I think is a good choice because it allows you to focus on the dialogue and what these three characters are actually saying to each other and what it means. I always like theatre that gets people discussing its contents and meaning afterwards, and this is a prime example of that.

The third instalment of the story of Joey for me is the saddest (in the sense that it brought tears to my eyes). Listening to this broken little boy retell the horrors of his life to an imaginary friend is such a powerful scene that you can't help but be drawn in. The story of Joey is one that would make a powerful film or tv series. As an audience member you can't help but feel such strong emotions for the characters and that makes this piece (and the others) incredibly powerful theatre!

I started this series of pieces with Joey age 6 and this is just as powerful and well done as that. Imagining myself as an audience member I could see me struggling not to stand up in the middle of this heart breaking moment and say "leave the kid alone!". That proves how powerful the action Joe has created is. I think once you start the story of Joey, you will want to read until the end.

The 'life after death' question is one people have asked for years and Joe Swenson has given a truly unique spin on it. This piece carries it all, humour, heart felt moments and underneath it all a clear message that sometimes we can't be afraid of the unknown. Its a powerful piece that I think will make audiences think and will be talked about afterwards, which is never a bad thing in my mind.

Everyone knows the hardest conversations are the ones you can have with yourself and Joe Swenson has perfectly captured that in this piece. I love everything about this piece. I love the way its set out, I love the variety of characters and the events we are privileged to learn about in their lives that have led them to this moment and I love the journey they go on when they are faced with the hardest thing to do...talking to yourself. Its a beautiful touching piece.