Recommended by Arthur M Jolly

This is a brilliant, brilliant collaboration between two top-notch playwrights. There are laugh lines that will kill, an over-the-top build in tension and humor, but topped by a devastating turn-around that will leave the audience stunned. Powerful, emotionally engaging - this is what a ten minute play can be at its best.

I saw the production at the Pacific Resident Theatre in '09 - truly a stunning experience. This is an immensely powerful play looking at the lives of blue-collar Americans, living through the economic uncertainty that is inextricably woven into the fibers of their lives - but it is so much more. Any theatre looking for a modern successor to Brecht should look at this play.

Emotionally powerful and true to life, this play never falls into the trap of easy, pat answers to challenging questions that - in real life - might be raised in ten crucial minutes, but are rarely solved in them. This play is beautifully done and engages on some fundamental (no pun intended) levels.

Any time you start laughing out loud at the character descriptions before even getting to the play, you know it's going to be good. Wonderfully dark and wickedly funny - this play is like eating chocolate mousse, it's so good and so sinful!

Sweet but never saccharine - this play expounds on "playing house" until it is not only a reflection of a relationship, but also of the ways we all carry our childhoods forward into our adult lives. An impressive achievement, especially in a ten minute play.

Fascinating, powerful. The ending of Act One - a childish prank, orchestrated by a trio of former friends that escalates to a rape in front of them- is devastating. I literally gasped reading it. The layers of culpability, of hidden secrets and shifting alliances, make this a great play for skilled actors to really show off what they can do.

I have now seen two readings of this play, by wildly different casts, and this play kills. Hysterically funny dry wit. Please produce this one in your theatre, and let me know so I can come see it.

Funny, self-reflective, original... yes, it's a meta piece about monologue performance - and it's a very, very good one. This would be a worthy addition to any evening of short works.

Haunting, captivating, and fiercely original; this is an intricate mind-puzzle of a mental journey between these two characters. It is like a shared dream, and by the end of it, you are dreaming with them.

Stunning in its ability to take the audience on a journey at once utterly unfamiliar and yet deeply resonant. We recognize the shared humanity of people living lives we can barely imagine... a tour de force. Ashley Rose Wellman has a knack for finding the extremes and presenting them so simply, so true to life, that we find ourselves swept along, quietly nodding: Well, of course that's what it's like to grow up as the child of a convicted serial killer. How else could it be? This is an amazing play.