Recommended by Josh Gauthier

It's always fun to see what people do with really specific constraints. With some very particular guidelines, Hunt serves up a mix of meta-theater and wild comedy that leaves plenty of room for the audience to find connections to much more serious themes in the real world.

Crowbait Club bad play entries are always a wild time and with a rapid-fire mix of funyuns, moxie, flirting, and questions, Just One More Question is a meta romantic comedy of sorts that unfolds at a rapid pace of wordplay and humor. It's a fun read, and with the right cast, would be 10 minutes of excellent fun.

As the meme goes, well that escalated quickly. With unflinching humor, Hunt throws two characters into an uncomfortable situation and through rapid-fire dialogue and wild circumstances, allows things to spiral out of control as two very professional lawyers do their best to maintain their dignity.

Capturing the tension and awkwardness after the end of a relationship, Klass's play of a young ex-couple unspools the dialogue as all the things they aren't initially willing to say begin to bubble to the surface. Amidst discussions of films and custody of a cat, Likewise grows into a deeper examination of what a relationship looks like in the aftermath and how messy that can be to navigate.

A short play that packs a punch, capturing the complex dynamics of a married relationship interwoven with questions of race, social pressure, and what it means to live authentically even if it requires taking risk. Haymer crafts a single scene that embodies an entire story with heart, realism, and a knowing balance of the real and the ideal.

I love a story that's willing to just go for it and in this tale of undeath, romance, misunderstandings, and assassinations, Feeny-Williams delivers a quick, funny romp through relationships and adventure. It's tightly woven and unfolds with sincerity amidst the growing body count.

A study in vulnerability. It's a short play, meta in presentation, but the opening is all too familiar to anyone who struggles with doubts while creating. Nevertheless, writers ask questions, and Heyman's questioning playwright paves the way for characters struggling with their own identities and questions about whether they have made the right decision. Short, but packed with themes deeply rooted in human experience.

Familiar tropes collide with a cast of characters barely holding it together as they struggle to complete a hallmark movie none of them believe in, in Joe Swenson's snappy parody.

A short piece with a sharp ending that I can picture playing out in dramatic fashion on stage.

Brief but powerful, tragic but not without hope, Jonny Bolduc has crafted a dialogue that begins to process standing on the other side of tragedy. A process that doesn't begin with pat answers, but simply with community and refusing to let the horror have the final word.