Recommended by Christopher Plumridge

THE CANDIDATE is a great short play for a youth group to perform, Hampton has given all three perfectly believable characters and as a result their conversation is totally believable, natural. I have a good feeling Faith will become class president, she's clever, witty and savvy. Nice!

What a refreshing take this is on the Noir genre, not just by having a female private investigator, but also the clever way in which Costa displays her sideline characters. I really enjoyed this short play and the plot line, with its twists and turns holds up well. Great!

I'm taken aback at how cleverly this play is written, how each line is crafted together, for most of the scene, to flow as a dialogue, but in time the heart-breaking truth shows through. Rachel has really touched on an emotive issue here and treated it as carefully and tenderly as the nurse has within this script. I'm moved, I think any audience will be too. Emotional and excellent, this story will stay with me.

Oh this is so sinister, so disturbing, yet you still see the love from the older sibling. You can't help admiring Justine's clever ploy, yet at the same time you're appalled. This is clever writing. It will also be a wonderful audition piece for an ambitious actor. Brilliant!

Whenever I want a proper laugh, a real pick me up, I turn to a Busser! This play is brilliantly confusing and totally hilarious! Aside, it it also very clever, the author has worked hard on every line to get the confusion spot on and I hugely admire that. And credit to any group of actors who can take this script on, they will find it hard but the rewards will be an audience in hysterics! Superb! Very Monty Python!
And I've resisted time travel jokes in this recommendation!

FAKERS By Hannah Land is a frightening insight into the online world of cyber bullying in a seemingly innocent fandom sight. Poor Autumn gets caught up in it all as events take place, quicker in this cyber world we now live in. How quickly we can become misunderstood when events in the media change so quick. The author makes the reader sympathize with Autumn and the ending is very moving. Very good!

'If you go down to the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise' Well certainly passerby Kate got her surprise. This is darkly funny with a great twist at the end. Dig yourself into this play before someone catches you!

I love a 'Play Noir' so could not pass up such a title as DIRK SAVAGEWOOD AND THE MAD SCIENTIST. Simple in it's plot line it goes straight to the point in a hilarious way. Even in Dirks most precarious situation he still finds time to admire the broad who got him in that predicament in the first place! Plus I've never really seen the importance of my own neck until reading this. Great fun!

SOPHISTICATED by Mackling is a sweet two hander, where the author explores a young woman's wish to be accepted at her new college. Her reasoning's are understandable, to blend in yet stand out, all the while being her own personality. Something tells me Sophie will have a promising career ahead of her.

Surely there is a better place to dabble with the occult than the church bathroom floor! This is such a fun, spooky play with twists I did not see coming. I think this would make a great piece for a youth group to perform, each actor would have lots of fun with the roles and it could be staged quite spookily. Great fun!