Recommended by Arthur M Jolly

  • Arthur M Jolly: Grain of Salt

    I love a play that trusts the audience - and the actors - to connect the dots without coming out and saying it. This play is devilishly delicious!

    I love a play that trusts the audience - and the actors - to connect the dots without coming out and saying it. This play is devilishly delicious!

  • Arthur M Jolly: Hookie

    Beautiful, poignant, and powerful. A one minute play that packs a lot into a single moment.

    Beautiful, poignant, and powerful. A one minute play that packs a lot into a single moment.

  • Arthur M Jolly: Snow In Galveston

    What an amazing play - I'm sitting here with tears in my eyes just from reading it. An absolute tour-de-force opportunity for two talented older actors, this one act deserves to be seen, and is guaranteed to leave an audience moved. Beautiful work.

    What an amazing play - I'm sitting here with tears in my eyes just from reading it. An absolute tour-de-force opportunity for two talented older actors, this one act deserves to be seen, and is guaranteed to leave an audience moved. Beautiful work.

  • Arthur M Jolly: The Gift of Perfection

    Fascinating, intriguing, puzzling - this is a sci-fi script that will lead to some wonderful audience discussions on their way home! The paranoia and attempt at control that drives the world of the script is as relevant and timely as ever - a great "think-piece" as well as a fun play to read.

    Fascinating, intriguing, puzzling - this is a sci-fi script that will lead to some wonderful audience discussions on their way home! The paranoia and attempt at control that drives the world of the script is as relevant and timely as ever - a great "think-piece" as well as a fun play to read.

  • Arthur M Jolly: The Repair Man

    Witty, perceptive, with some delightful characters and a wonderfully original scenario. The mother/daughter relationship is realistic, and the golem is intriguing and distinctive. A fun play!

    Witty, perceptive, with some delightful characters and a wonderfully original scenario. The mother/daughter relationship is realistic, and the golem is intriguing and distinctive. A fun play!

  • Arthur M Jolly: The Things You Find Out Between the First and Second Date

    A fantastic, hysterically funny play, that, for all it's over the top humor, rests on the solid foundation of a wonderfully believable, nuanced and heartfelt relationship between a mother dating a new guy, and her teenage daughter who's clued into the guy's quasi-secret shortcoming (he's a brony). There's so much to love in this one, and a couple of great roles for talented actors!

    A fantastic, hysterically funny play, that, for all it's over the top humor, rests on the solid foundation of a wonderfully believable, nuanced and heartfelt relationship between a mother dating a new guy, and her teenage daughter who's clued into the guy's quasi-secret shortcoming (he's a brony). There's so much to love in this one, and a couple of great roles for talented actors!

  • Arthur M Jolly: the old jew who begat scrooge, on his deathbed

    A witty, clever exploration into the nature of literary stereotypes and the humanity that gets bypassed when a writer - even Dickens or Shakespeare - portrays only their own preconceptions. The play is also a sweet, wonderful reflection on the meaning of life and the nature of death, and manages to encompass so much depth and heart in only ten minutes - beautifully written.

    A witty, clever exploration into the nature of literary stereotypes and the humanity that gets bypassed when a writer - even Dickens or Shakespeare - portrays only their own preconceptions. The play is also a sweet, wonderful reflection on the meaning of life and the nature of death, and manages to encompass so much depth and heart in only ten minutes - beautifully written.

  • Arthur M Jolly: The Little Boats

    Powerful and all too timely, this brief glimpse into the heartbreaking decision of a refugee in dire straits packs a massive emotional wallop in only a few pages. This could be the poignant high point in an evening of short plays, and deserves to be seen and talked about.

    Powerful and all too timely, this brief glimpse into the heartbreaking decision of a refugee in dire straits packs a massive emotional wallop in only a few pages. This could be the poignant high point in an evening of short plays, and deserves to be seen and talked about.

  • Arthur M Jolly: The Purple One

    I love this! Utterly random, hysterically funny - but with depth to the characters, and some lovely subtext to a relationship that is already on the rocks even without a talking eggplant only one of them can hear. Delightful.

    I love this! Utterly random, hysterically funny - but with depth to the characters, and some lovely subtext to a relationship that is already on the rocks even without a talking eggplant only one of them can hear. Delightful.

  • Arthur M Jolly: I'll Take Care of You

    Deceptively simple, with straightforward language and powerful emotional depth that's reminiscent of Hemingway, this is a small play that successfully carries big ideas. The language and viewpoint of a 7 year old caught up in the major life events (pregnancy and miscarriage) of his parents works to great effect - and has some wonderful lines, like "She isn’t even born yet and she’s already bothering me. This would never happen with a remote control truck." Great work.

    Deceptively simple, with straightforward language and powerful emotional depth that's reminiscent of Hemingway, this is a small play that successfully carries big ideas. The language and viewpoint of a 7 year old caught up in the major life events (pregnancy and miscarriage) of his parents works to great effect - and has some wonderful lines, like "She isn’t even born yet and she’s already bothering me. This would never happen with a remote control truck." Great work.