Recommended by Arthur M Jolly

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!

Fascinating, gripping, intriguing - a rapid-rant, manic monologue that veers from funny to disturbing - but still funny. I can see different actors taking this one in radically different ways , and it might be a useful piece for acting classes for that reason.

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!

A short but powerful play - with an ending that lands like a cathartic punch, with the wonderful bonus that suddenly the title takes on a whole new meaning. There are lots of deep emotional levels for the actors to explore in this play, for those that are willing to explore them.

A perfectly drawn moment - the aching, bittersweet knife edge of characters balancing overwhelming emotions and unsure of how they will play out. The role of Robbie is deceptive - seemingly oblivious and facile, there's enough there to make this truly a fantastic exploration of the complex relationship web between all three of the characters. Exceptional.