Recommended by Beckett Flynn

"I wouldn't do that to a friend! And you are Pete the Friend". "They slurp and drink and survive.""Birthed Day" "Every of the things" "She is world." "And thinness returns"

This play's full of Roni's singular poetry. There's a sadness... an almost subliminal sadness... What brand of lonely is this?

Won't forget the image of two people watching TV on a phone placed on top of a glass coffee table they have scooted under... I have my stories of laptops on snack tables... shitty metal folding chairs... faded loves...

A play about transformation — everything is in motion... thank God...

I'm consistently impressed by Lee's understanding of their own voice at such a young age. When I was 23 I was scribbling on bathroom mirrors. They also have a real commitment to and understanding of short plays, something I admire and envy. This play is beautiful. It's a play in transition, of people who want to be in motion, to transform. More than that it's about thwarted movement, thwarted change, thwarted communication...

This play is so funny, weird, and awesome! Got me thinking about being isolated and alone. And George Washington. Audience's love a good cum bit don't they. Produce this play. I know I have.

Ay - YO!!! This play MOVES! Its 175 pages long and I read it in one sitting??? It's hilarious, painful, and suspenseful in a way only a Vermillion play can be — but this one's extra special due to 1. the circus aesthetic, 2. the very real and (likely) personal dilemma of an artist approaching their thirties, and 3. HARLOWWW. Patrick's written a lot of great flawed protagonists, but this slimey fucker tops them all. Endlessly loveable, hateable, and intoxicating, Harlow is a vortex of ambition -- something simultaneously gorgeous and hideous when morphed under capitalism... lemme audition for 'em?

Unapologetically academic, working class, and by-a-philly-playwright, Essential Reading is an odyssey of the mind. Language twists and contorts based on whether or not a scene is a dream, and soon enough you're doubting your own reality. The miracle of making an academic beef premise build into a generational socio-economic heartbreak about failing, failing, failing on your dreams..

"It’s not special; it’s not interesting; it’s just work and then you die, right?"

Great shit.

Verité is a delicate little puzzlebox of a piece. It's about faces and how they change what we see. I know 'cause I got to see it three times with six different faces. I'm sure there are a ton of secrets about sophie fit in here, but she'll never tell.

Roll over Kushner, and tell Junot Diaz the news.

A perfect play.

Gorgeous. Horrifying. Perfect. If you want the shock of the new, you've found it.

Otto can't settle down. He needs things to be exactly right. He has something building inside him and it has to come out. Does he need to confess? To prove his love? Or is it something much more sinister?

Key to the play is a standout monologue about halfway through from Casey. She tells him he can't fight for her. That any version of her he wants to fight with is gone. He took it. Whatever "she" was to him is no longer what she is. It's a thriller hidden as a divorce play — and a tight one.

I got to see this play performed three times for three audiences and it always unsettled and touched them. From the offstage screaming patients to the silent orderly to the blood to the strange dilemma of government-controlled time travel, Sterile Processing is a weird, cold, uncompromising tale that briefly becomes comfortable between the two characters but never quite warm. It's funny as well.