Recommended by Rachel Feeny-Williams

Never has the letter X been so well used and I've felt so sorry for it! Matthew has created a wonderful world of children's television and utilised one of the most neglected letters as a theme. Its truly wonderful as an idea on its own but then you get the fabulous back and forth between Xanthia and Xander as they discuss how it feels to be Ex-cluded! As with many of Matthew's pieces I've read, its a wonderfully unique story that would great to stage and I think would entertain the old and the young alike. Ex-cellent!

This play is a laugh out loud brilliant alternative show for the festive time of year! Peter has wonderfully incorporated a unique Christmas adventure with a super hero twist. I had so many lovely giggling moments and I've no doubt an audience would do to. Not only that but this would be fabulous to stage, create costumes for and direct, which makes it fun for the whole theatrical family. So, if you're looking for something different and fabulous to produce for the festive time of year then read this piece, you won't be disappointed!

Pure and raw power, that's what is being displayed here in a 'cat and mouse' style. As an audience, your attentions is immediately captured from the very beginning and from there the tension and emotion only seems to escalate as Franciszka learns of what she potentially faces. The power in this play resides not only in the characters themselves, the tension fuelled back and forth dialogue but there are powerful images created in the stage directions, which I could clearly see in my minds in. That power builds and builds before you are given a perfectly powerful climactic moment! Brilliant!

My curiosity spiked early here. Like the Son, I was dying to know why the father has invited him to lunch. In those first pages Cam does a wonderful job of drawing his reader/audience in. From there you start to discover more about the awkwardness of 'Dad' as first he orders food and then follows through using the metaphor to discuss...well everything. Its a wonderfully unique and clever way of constructing a very deep conversation. The cherry on the cake is then a wonderfully real and emotion charged ending that I implore you to read for yourself!

Its very easy to see why this play has already been a winner! Its a piece that draws the audience down one path, sprinkled with great laugh out loud moments before it is wonderfully twisted to an utterly fabulous ending that had me giggling LOADS! I don't want to say too much about the story itself because, as a reader, I want you to get the same joy as I did, discovering what happened (or did it?) to this group of friends last night! Well worth a read to discover that its a great comedy that only needs an audience!

Who needs the 'kerfuffle' (amazing word) of dealing with the 99 percent raising up against those who would forever keep them downtrodden? That's the wonderful satirical question that Steven asks here. It forces the audience to look at and consider the way we think about the big problems of the world and the way those problems can be overshadowed very easily by the 'powers that be'. Its got wonderful witty moments as well as a complexity that will have the audience discussing it at length in the bar afterwards, its a wonderfully different look at the world!

Cindi grabs her audience's attention from the word go in this tension fuelled, fast-paced thrill ride. The questions came tumbling out of my head before I could stop them, 'when', 'why', 'where'? Then, just as you're trying to figure out the answer to those questions you are thrown into another twist that provides a wonderfully unique answer to those questions. The play may have a simplistic style set but the pace of the dialogue will draw an audience into this world of intrigue for sure!

Rachel has brought to life a brilliant character in this monologue. Not only are you informed/educated about the life of Dora Dean but she also brings to life the world she lived in. I always believe the strength of a monologue lies in its story telling and the story of Dora Dean's career/life is brilliantly told with wonderful phrasing and imagery that you can see if you were to close your eyes and listen to it! It would make a wonderful performance piece, offering a fabulous character to explore.

The brilliant balance of the modern and the Shakesperean is wonderful in this play! The way Charlotte initially starts with the polite congratulatory attitude when a colleague receives a promotion before unleashing...well the opposite (without saying too much) is fabulously done. It would make a great festival piece and it has the wonderful flexibility of being able to be staged anywhere, which is should be, because it will amuse, a lot!

Friendship and the sharing of problems it at the centre of this hard-hitting and emotional piece. From the very beginning, I was drawn into the situation where Sienna finds Tate awake in the middle of the night. From that point onwards I NEEDED to find out what was wrong, which, as it turns out was also Sienna's desire and I imagine it would be the same for an audience. Both characters are wonderfully real and as the audience you are let into the baggage of their situation, which is revealed at a perfect pace and loaded with raw emotion.