Recommended by Arthur M Jolly

  • Against the Grain
    20 Jan. 2024
    A powerful, important and moving play - a three hander, taking place entirely in a locker room, about three teenage boys confronting their shifting allegiances to an unseen coach accused of misconduct - and coming to terms with their own complex relationships with each other. David Remschel has created three vivid, nuanced and true-to-life teens facing a world of complex, resonant emotions for the first time, in a carefully crafted coming-of-age story that unfolds over a single evening.
  • The Bed Trick
    22 Nov. 2023
    Fascinating and powerful. Hypnotic in its rhythms, cleverly constructed, tightly written... this play deconstructs a familiar trope, rewrites and elevates it. It is a hauntingly beautiful work.
  • Grace
    5 Nov. 2023
    An absolutely hauntingly beautiful, introspective and thought-provoking monologue. It has shades of Joan Didion's "The Year of Magical Thinking" in the best way - an exquisitely written fragment of a challenging passage of life that doesn't get enough consideration, on stage or off.
  • Not enough buses in spring.
    26 Sep. 2023
    A beautiful play - haunting, engaging. It transports you to the depths of these two characters. Easily staged, and a powerful piece of writing. It also has some fantastic monologues if you're looking for audition pieces!
  • Pilloried
    20 Sep. 2023
    Bawdy, rambunctious, with heart and even a few pearls of wisdom... if that sounds like the description of a medieval jester, you're onto why this play works so well. Wisdom through humor, and the technique of using low-brow body-function jokes to convey a lesson in shared humanity has worked well for thousands of years, and still resonates today in Jillian's wonderful "Pilloried."
  • Colic
    12 Aug. 2023
    All the funniest parts of The Exorcist and then some! Scott has a wickedly funny, outrageously original and creative play here, inhabited by characters with complex relationships and nuanced depths. I loved the twists and turns - I never knew where it would take me, but I was along for the ride!
  • Fénix
    6 Jul. 2023
    Devastatingly powerful, searing to the memory and such beautiful writing.
  • Boardwalk Concessions
    6 Jul. 2023
    An absolute gem of a play. Strikingly funny, with an original and effective ploy with one character desperately waiting to bite into her corndog while it's hot... but far from being a comedic gimmick, that's only the catalyst for a rapid turn into a much deeper, soul-satisfying exploration of why relationships fail. Beautifully done.
  • Maybe For A Minute
    30 Jun. 2023
    Deeply reminiscent of those teenage conversations we all had - the ones that were so deep, so powerful. This is a beautiful play, and the depth of Lily and Ron-Ann, and the nuance and complexity of their relationship, are exquisitely presented. This would be a worthy addition to an evening of one-acts, and a chance for two young actors to truly shine.
  • Rocket Yourself to the Moon
    22 Jun. 2023
    Wickedly funny, bitingly political, written with a gleeful eye on the theatricality of the corporate nightmarish dystopia we live in and the best way to present it to the shareholders of Sandra's Old Timey Yoghurt Shoppe - a global conglomerate with plans for extending their corporate domination to the moon. For a start.

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