Recommended by Christopher Plumridge

This had me at Monty Python...Imagine if you will two inept and bored guards at the southern gate, in the dead of night, and who should approach? Just like a scene from The Holy Grail, Gretchen paints a dryly hilarious ten minute play here. Will these guards take heed of the messenger? Read this to find out, better still produce it! Wonderful!

THE BUTTERFLY ANCHOR is a stunning piece of work. As we see Brian, a former Olympic swimmer, come to terms with ALS, a beautiful, emotional and moving tale of new found friendship unfolds. Angela is an unconventional carer, but most of all a total angel, a wonderful character for an actor to delve into. Every character in this play is perfectly constructed, which will surely draw in the audiences attention effortlessly.
This really is an exceptional play which I would pay good money to see!

When the key part of a story is not shown or explained, it's up to the audience to wonder what is going on. This is an excellent example.
Tense, scary and unsettling, this is great work!

Ooooh! What is this house doing to its residents? Or are the residents just taking it out on the house, either way it needs a new door!
Once again this is a clever one minute play from Lou Jones, as there are so many questions left unanswered.
I would happily watch an evening of Jones short mysteries being staged.

Lou Jones has a wonderful knack for creating completely fresh, new takes on spiritualism and the afterlife. Here in this clever play in verse her protagonist holds a lonely seance to contact a lost love, only to hear the ghost just wants to be left alone.
The rythym of this piece makes it beautiful, and the fact so much is said yet so much unsaid makes it all the more intriguing. Love it!

I'm not the biggest fan of one minute plays, the time restraint prevents any depth of story. Usually. But here Lou Jones has proved me totally wrong.
In WE DONT HAVE MUCH TIME so much is said, yet also unsaid, that I had to read this twice, the second time after knowing the ending, for this gave it a vastly different meaning. There are so many different ways this play could be staged.
No spoilers here but the ending will knock audiences off their feet.
Excellent work!

Ha! The consequences of a little lie told many years before can live with you a long time, so Joe finds out in this fun play by Lisa. He's won a trip to the moon, of which he has quite a dislike for. Better still, this trip of a life time was won from a cereal box!
I love this play, and at breakfast tomorrow I'll be checking all Kellogs boxes in my cupboard....

There are so many stories set in heaven, or some bizarre version of heaven.. I've written one myself. But not so many set in Hell.
This is a darkly funny play filled with such vibrant characters, none more so than Teresa, Satan's assistant as such, who presents a somewhat challenging dilemma to these three students.
So many twist, turns, flashbacks it's hard to keep up, this is one Hell of a play! Bravo!

Rachel has taken a difficult story and created a stunningly visual short play full of the strongest emotions, heartbreak, loss and moody jazz.
I want to emphasise this writers skill in creating multiple sets on one stage, sets across space and time, effortlessly merging into each other. As a sometimes producer myself, I appreciate how, especially in this play, each zone of the set has been simply and effectively described, the results would be stunning.
I would love to stage LOVE THAT BURNS.

Ah, so this is what Jack Frost and the Snow Queen are up to in these times of global warming ... naturally they have their concerns and set about reversing their downturn in profits.
This play is a clever, subtle and funny take on the situation the world is finding itself in. I personally believe this would make a good exercise for a school production.