Recommended by Arthur M Jolly

  • Arthur M Jolly: Dueling Technicians

    Witty, clever, with a delightful twist at the end - and almost silent! If you're looking for a wonderful example of how much can be told without dialogue, look no further - this would be great for classroom study as well as being a part of an evening of short works, whether playing with sound, theatrical forms - or just fun workplace comedies!

    Witty, clever, with a delightful twist at the end - and almost silent! If you're looking for a wonderful example of how much can be told without dialogue, look no further - this would be great for classroom study as well as being a part of an evening of short works, whether playing with sound, theatrical forms - or just fun workplace comedies!

  • Arthur M Jolly: Bile in the Afterlife

    If you haven't treated yourself to the off-beat, imaginative and delightful humor of a Dawson Moore play, what are you waiting for? In this one act, the old gods of Egypt tackle a modern interloper. It's an early play of Moore's that is due for a revival - lots of fun with some interesting insights along the way!

    If you haven't treated yourself to the off-beat, imaginative and delightful humor of a Dawson Moore play, what are you waiting for? In this one act, the old gods of Egypt tackle a modern interloper. It's an early play of Moore's that is due for a revival - lots of fun with some interesting insights along the way!

  • Arthur M Jolly: Tell Me Something Good

    Powerful and deeply emotional. Audrey Cefaly once again showcases her talent with clean, sparse, raw - but oh-so-loaded-with-depth dialogue. A collection of interwoven stories that takes us on a journey to an emotional mountain top, and a wonderful journey it is!

    Powerful and deeply emotional. Audrey Cefaly once again showcases her talent with clean, sparse, raw - but oh-so-loaded-with-depth dialogue. A collection of interwoven stories that takes us on a journey to an emotional mountain top, and a wonderful journey it is!

  • Arthur M Jolly: Joshua

    This play is a masterclass in context and subtext, and a tour-de-force piece for two talented young actors. It manages - in the space of a one act - to pull in the whole world and a hundred billions stars and contain them for a brief moment. It is a heart-wrenching glimpse into lives not yet lived - two characters who haven't yet discovered what their lives may be, and are already in mourning for a profound loss. Exquisite writing.

    This play is a masterclass in context and subtext, and a tour-de-force piece for two talented young actors. It manages - in the space of a one act - to pull in the whole world and a hundred billions stars and contain them for a brief moment. It is a heart-wrenching glimpse into lives not yet lived - two characters who haven't yet discovered what their lives may be, and are already in mourning for a profound loss. Exquisite writing.

  • Arthur M Jolly: Ashleigh Says Out Loud the Thing She Meant to Say in Her Head

    What a beautiful twist! I, like Diana, never saw it coming - and there's something so sharp about the ending - it lands with devastating humor.

    What a beautiful twist! I, like Diana, never saw it coming - and there's something so sharp about the ending - it lands with devastating humor.

  • Arthur M Jolly: The Calorie Counters

    I saw the Los Angeles production - what a fantastic play. There's so much here for actors to delve into and for audiences to be swept into and take into themselves... it's an issue play that never seems to be self-conscious or overdone or obvious, it's all about these beautiful, utterly believable characters and their complex relationships to each other, but their personal journeys just happen (courtesy of the amazing writing) to navigate and illuminate a society that is weight-obsessed.

    I saw the Los Angeles production - what a fantastic play. There's so much here for actors to delve into and for audiences to be swept into and take into themselves... it's an issue play that never seems to be self-conscious or overdone or obvious, it's all about these beautiful, utterly believable characters and their complex relationships to each other, but their personal journeys just happen (courtesy of the amazing writing) to navigate and illuminate a society that is weight-obsessed.

  • Arthur M Jolly: Always

    What an evocative, emotionally resonant piece - so simple, so cleanly and clearly written - just a couple who have been together for fifty years and still love each other, portrayed with a deceptive subtlety. It's truly some beautiful writing.

    What an evocative, emotionally resonant piece - so simple, so cleanly and clearly written - just a couple who have been together for fifty years and still love each other, portrayed with a deceptive subtlety. It's truly some beautiful writing.

  • Arthur M Jolly: Bloodkitchen

    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!

    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!

  • Arthur M Jolly: When Cranes Cha-Cha

    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!

    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!

  • Arthur M Jolly: Credible

    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.

    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.