Recommended by Christopher Plumridge

Songs, especially love songs, can mean so many different things to so many different people. Who owns the song, the writer? The original singer? The cover artist? Maybe no-one fully owns a song and that's the beauty of it.
There is so much more to this monologue, but that's my take on it.
I do love the way it's written as a one-sided monologue, allowing the audience to fill in the gaps with the husbands argument.
Oh, and what a killer final line!

The dialogue between the three characters sparkles like the fireworks they have come to see.
Cheryl is enjoying the show, her last night before moving on, but along come her colleagues, who do not know what she knows, hence the tension builds up to the finale of the light spectacular above them.
This play proves that sometimes, even if it means being ruthless, we have to take care of number one.
A sparkler of a play!

This play is as sweet as the cotton candy these two kids share.
Jake is fun, persistent, and he NEEDS to be on time to see the elephants parade, to a point he's testing his mom.
Mom mom mom mom mom...! But what he does towards the end melts both mom's hearts and we see a lovely new friendship unfold. Love it!

STICKERS OVER MY EYES, is unique and spell binding, I can see it staged as well as listening to the story unfold. There are no character descriptions, you figure it out as it's revealed, bit by bit.
A fascinating short play which leaves so much to the imagination, so much to interpretation.
This will have me pondering for a while, I love it!

What fun it must be to have your own chorus, if only for a day! I, for one, would relish the chance, if only to test them, to see if they can really know or keep up with my emotions (good luck with that!)
Lisa gives us two wonderful characters, the annoyed and confused Leslie and the super enthusiastic Jordan, doing his best to brighten his clients day.
Something tells me these two will have a great day together!

This monologue is unique, poetic, and simply brilliant. The tension builds throughout, somewhat uncomfortably, right to the abiss of the ending.
What I love about such good writing is that the reader, or viewer, can make what they will of it, interpret their own way. For me it is a metaphor of the ongoing humiliation of bullying, especially when no-one intervenes, stuck up high for all to see and mock.
A very powerful monologue as well as being really quite disturbing.

Firstly, I'm British, secondly, I admire the work (albeit old-fashioned) of Noel Coward. William has nailed the essence of Coward perfectly in this funny, short play.
Chase's questioning of this baby is hilarious, and at times frightening, as he believes it is not his flesh and blood, and Pru's reaction is spot on.
Something tells me this couple will go on to be great patents, despite their own insecurities.
Oh and the final stage direction had me giggling like a baby! Great work!

BOUND... physically and mentally, in this case, for Rhett. Many live in a false life, a life dictated as acceptable by society, yet so often they crave something considered so taboo... yet isn't this just natural love and desire? One day, this passion borne in our hearts will be fully accepted, natural even.
Stephen presents a tender, deep, two hander here, which makes for compelling reading and would be even more so when staged. Excellent!

Wow, this is a hard hitting fable, timeless too. Who really wants eternal life and how would we even cope with it?
The path to his dreams, and the fork in the road, is fraught with desire and temptation, so which way will Sam go? The beauty of this is the ending.
Brilliant and original!

This monologue is a powerful insight into ADHD, and for someone who has little understanding or experience of it, it's very enlightening. Debra addresses the fact that in our youth, it was not recognised, so therefore not diagnosed. How many of our peers must have been going through what the protagonist in this monologue did, through our formative years, only to cover it well?
As for freezing time itself, it's difficult to know exactly how we would best use this time. Maybe I would try to write monologues this good!