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Franky D. Gonzalez

Recommended by Franky D. Gonzalez

  • Product Reveal by John Minigan
    4 May. 2018
    “ An chilling play that you wish was more fiction than reality. Minigan presents an inventor who creates the manifestation of the American contradiction. Worse yet, it's not a far stretch of the imagination to see this seeming contradiction of a product flying off the shelves were it introduced to the mainstream market. Read the monologue. No words can really do justice to that unsettling ending. Part prophecy, part dramatic conceit. This monologue delivers a wallop, and doesn't miss the target. ”
  • MOSTLY CLOUDY by Greg Burdick
    26 Apr. 2018
    “ A funny comedy that updates a fable to modern time with a play on words and putting these two characters in our highly connected world. As this couple goes a day without technology to watch the clouds, the rifts in the relationship--seeming to come from much longer ago than this conversation--start to show. What Burdick does however is show that there is hope even under the rain and the winds of change can turn a rain cloud into something more lovely than what was there before. What a pleasant play! ”
  • The Bat by Mary DeCarlo
    26 Apr. 2018
    “ A play that explores the depth and strength of friendship after a life-altering event. The dialogue leaps out at you with its realism of cadence. For so few pages, it presents so many questions, problems, resistance, and solutions. A fascinating play that bears consideration. DeCarlo has a wonderful sense of rhythm and keeping things both vague while still being engaging. ”
  • The Play about the Play by David Folwell
    26 Apr. 2018
    “ I burst out laughing reading this. Every playwright's nightmare in a few pages and it's absolutely hilarious. There is so much going on in this play that it's astounding to think this isn't a full-length play. Confessions, Germans, broken fax machines, marital problems, religion, childhood issues, overreacting mothers, and Nick Galasano from Queens--we all know him, even if we don't--all collide together to make a hilarious short piece that will make you want to read it and watch it again and again. ”
  • O Dreamer by Duncan Pflaster
    26 Apr. 2018
    “ Pflaster pulls off combining Walt Whitman, Superman, Batman, affairs, marriage, love, and a coffee shop together in this little gem of a play where we learn that communication between lovers means miscommunication--at times--of the largest scale. Two lovers--or boyfriends? Maybe manfriends?--look to be calling it quits until they begin to talk, perhaps for the first time, and realize aspects of each other that may not have been clear through years of rendezvous. With clear dialogue that gracefully walks the line of witty with the plain-spoken. It's a play that you'll chuckle over and leave you thinking. ”
  • A La Roro by Art Por Diaz
    26 Apr. 2018
    “ A wonderful nightmare about acceptance, equality, and the straddling the line of two cultures. Art Por Diaz creates a world where having to choose becomes an humorous exercise in impossibility. There is so much heart and tenderness here that children will love, with whispers of the themes that parents of bicultural children have to reckon with. A beautiful play about a boy and his two would-be scary monsters. This is a play that needs to be seen in more children's theatres. ”
  • Keynote Speech by Ben Ferber
    26 Apr. 2018
    “ I fearfully--with morbid excitement--await some version of this speech to be given by a tech executive. Ferber may well prove to be a technology jester or prophet. His humorous monologue, whose character has all the pretentiousness and aloof arrogance of a tech tycoon, will make you squirm uncomfortably and laugh out loud by how over-the-top this sounds. And yet...you can't help but wonder if there is a market for it. Wonderfully funny, and cringe-inducing in the best ways possible. This tech CEO has all the tone-deafness of someone too self-involved to realize what he's actually saying. Very fun monologue. ”
  • Fancy by Diana Burbano
    26 Apr. 2018
    “ The mark of a good dystopian setting is not its flashy science-fiction elements, nor the descriptions of a destroyed society. Rather, it's the ability to talk about the problems of today in a context that sidesteps the browbeating tactics of some politically-inclined writers. Burbano is no such writer. She discusses the evolution of feminism and the ground being lost for women's rights with such elegance that you're left breathless. The past, present, and future meet together in this cell where two women discuss what many of us refuse to. This is a play whose necessity to today cannot be overstated. ”
  • Prison Song by Nelson Diaz-Marcano
    26 Apr. 2018
    “ Diaz-Marcano asks us to consider some tough questions about the nature of love, hatred, and guilt in this weighty play. Giving us two characters for whom the world has abandoned, and who only have each other to take the responsibility of setting free and keeping alive. They console and tear each other apart beautifully and grotesquely. As much about cleansing as it is about debasement and as much about pleasure as it is about pain, Nelson Diaz-Marcano paints a play of contradiction and false truths that must truly be the truth. I cannot recommend this highly enough. Read it now. ”
  • Have You Been to the New Harris Teeter? by Patrick Flynn
    26 Apr. 2018
    “ An examination of class struggle, parenthood, and frustration with the small passive-aggressive aggressive/smug actions that build up to a reaction that has far-reaching consequences. Danielle becomes an everyperson frustrated by the excesses of the rich and explains herself as though attempting to absolve, while still unable to leave the moment of her act of rage. Patrick Flynn creates a convincing portrait of the cyclical nature of the guilt and excuses used to justify acts of aggression. We are left wondering who Danielle is trying to convince of her innocence; us or herself? What a fascinating, if disquieting, play. ”

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