Recommended by Arthur M Jolly

Funny as all get-out, with the over-the-top gory humor of some classic grade B movies (Dead Alive comes to mind) - but perfect as a radio play where the gore is all in the mind, along with the tupperware container of brains and the perfect framing device of this being a fifteen year old's fictional story... so much fun!

So funny, so unexpected, so cute... what a clever, inventive and intriguing way to take a real-life bizarre situation and run with the idea!

Stunningly powerful, a wrenching emotional roller coaster of a one person play, filled with love, with laughter, with surprising revelations about pain and trauma, with moments of dark despair and giddy highs. I cannot imagine what it took to write this play, but I can easily imagine the effect it must have on an audience - and I know its effect on this reader, which will linger. This is theatre at its best.

Sometimes, you are lucky enough to read a piece that just.... hits you. I've read plays on the NPX that made me cry, but the ending of this one literally made me sit back in my chair, and just say "woah" quietly under my breath. It's so simple, so raw, so honest - and so theatrical, and it snuck up on me. This is a beautiful piece, that cries out to be staged and deserves to be heard and seen.

I love ten minute plays that can bring you to tears just reading them; and I have no doubt that performed, the audience for this heart-wrenching play will have the same reaction. It's a beautiful scenario, a "final conversation" - or one of them - between a married couple dealing with the inevitability that they will be parted, and parted soon, by the death of the husband, and living a lifetime of memories in the moments they still have together.

Funny and original - a delightful perspective shift on the well known fairy tale!

Funny, sweet - poignant. There's so much in this deceptively simple apology for running late for an audition!

Absolutely brilliant! This play takes the classic elements of the horror genre - guilt, past trauma, paranoia - presents them beautifully, ratchets up the tension steadily - and then gives us one of the best jump scares I've read in a long, long while!

Clever, haunting, and all too painfully apropos in our current climate - this glimmer of life captures the moment when panic takes hold and spreads. Beautifully done.

Intriguing and exciting - this play drew me in gently, like wading into a lake so cold you don't realize until too late that you are out of your depth and swimming in deep, deep waters. There's a fantastic reveal at the end - one that, honestly, left me wanting more, in the best way!