Recommended by Robin Rice

  • What Baggage
    25 Dec. 2023
    What a delight! Some things don't change with age, but some things do. The reality of moving in together in the last third of life involves a heck of a lot more than at an early age. There's no blind, youthful can-do nonsense to help carry the luggage accumulated in a lifetime. Even if you aren't blinded by a cat allergy, even if Viagra is happily involved -- that luggage is still massive. A heavy subject is given a laugh-filled spin!
  • Tunnel Vision
    8 Nov. 2023
    What a gorgeously ambiguous monologue! It both holds together and opens up a plethora of interpretations. A smart actor would revel in it, and thoroughly captivate audiences.
  • A Slice of Chhena Poda
    8 Nov. 2023
    Plumridge turns expectations upside down. What a delight!
  • Prelude to the Music Dying
    7 Nov. 2023
    Nothing like wrapping a story around a moment in history that absolutely everyone who isn't living under a rock knows about - but hiding that fact until toward the end of the play! The whole brother-sister interaction is popping along, doing what a good play should do, then Mike hits you with a future you know will happen and the stakes literally go sky high.
  • Delete
    7 Nov. 2023
    A great example of how effective a short, short play can be. Everything extraneous is peeled off so the bare bones of what it means to delete all the "bad stuff" slams you over the head. Also a great example of how to make a metaphor come alive.
  • Maui Wowee!
    24 Oct. 2023
    I know that stories stick longer and sink deeper when serious matters are delivered with laughs. The journeys of the relationships in MAUI WOWEE! could have been served up straight -- but they're so much more resilient with Kato's comic touch.
  • MEMENTO MORI
    7 Aug. 2023
    Delightful and creepy! Ghastly and delectable! This most unusual situation we are plunked into plays out with frighteningly tender reality.
  • Things Are Looking Up
    2 Aug. 2023
    I don't know that I ever got chills reading a play before. It's a 90-degree day in my office, but reading this play, in the moment of realization a chill hit me like a wave. Beautifully observed, wonderfully specific, gorgeously understated. Excellent!
  • You Think You Know
    23 Jul. 2023
    I don't think I could write a farce. Rachel Feeny-Williams has co-opted the field. This fast-paced, emotion-driven, unfolding mystery twists and turns with never a dull moment. Who is who and why and how and when - with an unexpected twist at the end. Nope, I'm not even going to try to write a farce.
  • Good Neighbors (from the THE WRINKLE RANCH AND OTHER PLAYS ABOUT GROWING OLD collection)
    23 Jul. 2023
    How we mislead others - our neighbors, audiences.... - and how we mislead ourselves. The reversal creeps up on you, then comes the Oh yes! Realism isn't always straight-forward and honesty isn't always the best or easiest path to take at first - in both life and in a well-written play.

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