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  • The Last Spin Cycle by Hannah Lee DeFrates
    9 Apr. 2023
    “ When you have no answers for your questions, only wanderings and dreams, where does your mind go? The show has a rich and dark world we only see glimpses of. We do not know for what the doctors are imprisoned, if it is just, and if they are even decent people. And none of that matters. In the end, we are all people. All lonely and scared. All longing for something, looking for a brighter future. How do we create hope when we are hopeless? How do we bring the people we've lost with us? This a lovely, haunting show. ”
  • A Semicolon is a Double by Larry Rinkel
    7 Apr. 2023
    “ Sometimes you finish reading something and the major thought running through your brain is, "Cute!" Coming out is difficult. Can be, I suppose, is the better word. Nothing has to be anything. Just like life doesn't have to be lonely or feel isolating, but it often is and does. We see others and expect that life is easier for them. Maybe it is. Or maybe they think the same of us. We nerds and those jocks. But really, we all want connection. To be seen. Felt. To help and be helped. This is a lovely short. ”
  • Nina and Drew in a Little Canoe by Hannah Lee DeFrates
    7 Apr. 2023
    “ I, too, have always dreamt of fairytales, weddings, love, and magic. I once had an ex tell me I put him on a pedestal. It was an odd thing to hear, though perhaps I did. I knew all of these human and awful things about him, but for me not to hate him in the way he hated him was too much. I couldn't be another darkness for him. So I "loved him too much." It's a faded but constant bruise. All this to say, I found myself quite emotional reading this beautiful moonlit dance of a play. Well done. ”
  • Inside Man by Randy Hunt
    18 Mar. 2023
    “ In a way, we are all of us webs of hurt, threads of pain going both to and from us, trying to figure where one ends and another begins. Which ones did we creates, which ones were attached to us, and which ones did we meet partway? The arguments in this show build in how hard they hit until all of the masks start coming off the characters. Very well done drama. ”
  • The Twisted House by Ross Tedford Kendall
    17 Mar. 2023
    “ Somethings you read and they just excite you about theatre all over again, as if you're closing your first show again, living on the high, grinning and swimming in devious imagination. THIS is how you do horror. This is the sort of script that makes me want to kick my ass into gear and get a theatre company started so I can direct it, so I can throw it in front of an audience and we can all sit in such delicious terror. Read this. Perform it. And relish in the nightmare. ”
  • Incident at a Jurassic Park! by Evan Baughfman
    24 Jan. 2023
    “ Some things are simply pure joy. This? This show? This is one of those things. A mustache-twirling evil dinosaur with a tendency towards puns? Dinosaur melodrama? Yes. Inject this into my veins, please. Evan Baughfman has managed to write a short that, if it doesn't bring you some semblance of joy, I dare not look upon you for you must be an endless chasm devoid of any sort of happiness. God, I want to see this so badly. ”
  • Memory - Version 2 by Rachel Feeny-Williams
    24 Jan. 2023
    “ The end of this show carries a sudden and new tension for me, the kind that can spawn future entries in a detective series after a prodigy of sorts is revealed. It's a nice refutation of the original sexist point a character makes. Feeny-Williams writes well and often, putting out shorts faster than I could ever dream of. Here she showcases her skills at a longer format. One recommendation says she'd be great at television writing. On a similar note, I'd love to spend a night at the theatre filled with her detective works. ”
  • A Frozen Window by Cole Hunter Dzubak
    23 Jan. 2023
    “ What is a frozen window in the middle of winter? It's an annoyance, right? Because it messes things up. It gets snow, ice, and chilly wind everywhere. Ultimately, it hurts. It's hard to close. Then, when you do, some ice breaks. Maybe it hits you. Maybe it even cuts or stabs you. But the cold is gone. So, too, are the warm breezes of summer. Because the ice remains. Now it's frozen shut. And that hurts, too. Which is worse, keeping the window of our soul open to someone freezing it or slamming it shut on them? Great argument short. ”
  • Hair Tuck, Half Smile by Vince Gatton
    23 Jan. 2023
    “ I'm a sucker for dreams. I love what they mean for a story. If something ends with, "And it was all a dream," I will eat that shit up. Please let me talk about meaning in the "meaningless." Which is to say, I'm sort of primed to enjoy this short. Which I do. There's violence, melodrama, laughter, and then a gut punch of emotion. That's a lovely combination to pull off within 2 hour. HTHS manages to do it in far less. Vince Gatton and his skills strike again. ”
  • Overwinter by Mackenzie Raine Kirkman
    23 Jan. 2023
    “ What a play. Writing recommendations is difficult, because you want to SAY something. But I long to throw out my in-the-moment emotions. It's hard. Do I talk about the existential crisis, both the death kind and the kind where you find meaning from within yourself? Do I say Kirkman's writing and stage directions make every page buzz with the artistry of a novelist? I don't know. Do I say my eyes are tensed with thought, emotion? I don't use words like best. There is no objectivity. But I think this might be one of my favorite shows I've read. Ever. ”

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