Recommended by Jennifer O'Grady

Compassionate and shattering play about the horrors of dementia. Utterly gripping and so powerful.

Perfect gem of a one-minute play. Beautiful.

Wonderfully, darkly absurdist, with an increasingly moving emotional core, this play completely nails the impersonality of today's consumerist world even though it's set in the future. Would love to see this performed.

A terrific and searingly funny play with lots of marvelous twists and turns. Loved it!

A beautiful and important play about attempted suicide and how painful it is to talk about, but how necessary it is to talk. Hageman has such a gift for getting under the surface of her characters and showing us all the things they wish they could say but can't--just like real life. And the fact that these two characters are teens makes this play feel even more vital and essential. I'm in awe of this playwright's talent.

That anyone can write such a funny play-of-ideas about toilet paper is amazing, but not surprising from Goldman-Sherman, one of our smartest most ambitious playwrights (and I mean "ambitious" in terms of the challenges she embraces and makes art out of in her own work). The whole circus element is brilliant and so wonderfully theatrical. Read this!

I adore the meta-theatricality of this play and how absolutely funny it is while expertly balancing its larger themes, and the underlying darkness that sneaks up on the reader in a really brilliant way. I would love to see this on stage!

A terrific monologue that keeps us on the edge of our seats, wondering what is actually in the note, and totally relating to Riley's dilemma. So well done!

Perfect gem of a one-minute play, which contains Hageman's characteristic humor and theatricality along with (also characteristically) utterly believable--and surprising--characters. So fun!

Wow, what a play--skillful and fearless and emotionally powerful. A perfect example of how theater can open our eyes and compel us to respond to realities many of us would rather not think about. I'm in awe of this play (and playwright!).