Recommended by Brent Alles

A very moving and touching monologue here. There's a lot packed into this single page! This would definitely make an excellent monologue for a performer to use.

Tremendously funny ten-minute! I laughed many times while reading it. A groovy little bit of the ol' HP brought into the modern age. Middle schoolers with eldritch powers... ecch... is there anything more horrifying? I think not. Bolduc does an excellent job blending the comedy and the horror in this piece. I'm sure middle school teachers would definitely find this relatable... hell, they might even think Bolduc is underselling the terror of working with the urchins! :) I kid, I kid, but I'm not kidding when I say this is a very enjoyable 10-minute!

A funny riff on the good old Mafia stereotypes. It was definitely amusing watching the tables be turned in terms of the expectations of the "Dons." Nice to see Feeny-Williams get a new angle on a popular subject for storytelling. Very enjoyable 10-minute! (Hoping this review passes the manners tests.)

I love the world that Shakir is creating here. The characters are funny, the dialogue crackles, and the situation keeps growing in absurdity and yet still very much grounded in reality. The whole piece had me intrigued and left me wanting to know more and to find out what happens next! An exciting origin, to be sure.

A fascinating prison piece on the level of "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Longest Yard," Tennant does an excellent job of making you feel for these characters and their situations. The irony of "the great American pastime" being the only way these men can pass the time is not lost here. That's the beauty of sports, I think, is that a writer can use it for deeper examination of American society as a whole. That's at work here, and the history is bracing as we experience it for ourselves.

Admittedly, I kind of knew where this was going as I started reading it. But that doesn't mean that I didn't enjoy the ride a hell of a lot on the way there. Some witty back and forth between the two main characters that gets gleefully twisted at the end by the revelations that occur. A dark, delicious scoop of theater madness!

This was an excellent, tense 10-minute piece. The dialogue rings true, and you can just feel the hurt from these two people as they unfold their situation to the audience (we happy voyeurs, right?). The ending was the perfect way to bring this to a close. The best part of "short theater" sometimes is taking the audience through a whirlwind, and Radtke accomplishes that here as we hurt, we regret, and we ultimately hope for a certain resolution that may or may not occur. This would be perfect for any 10-minute festival that would have it!

This was just a devastating read. The situation is sadly and entirely plausible in terms of where we seem to be going sometimes in terms of medicine, insurance, society, etc. Anyway, as this narrative flows, you just have a tightening, lurching pit in your stomach as you feel so many emotions for poor Hadley. And you can feel for Micah too... as she's not quite a villain either. In a way, perhaps she's as trapped as Hadley is even if the mechanism of the trap is totally unique. This play's going to stay with me for a while... excellent work.

This was just terrific. A "meet cute" before a catastrophic storm? Sure, why not? Eating "phallic snacks" to begin the bonding? Of course! I absolutely loved the back and forth between the characters here. The piece is tremendously funny, of course, but there's depth here as well. And, believe it or not, honest-to-god romance! Aly's one of the few writers to make me imagine having a romantic interlude with hurricane-force winds closing in and be absolutely thrilled with the prospect. Would love to see this on stage at some point!

I can't imagine this was an easy play to write, and Rachel definitely met the assignment of 29PL in terms of a play that's designed to offend. However, even if you're offended by the situation presented here, you have to admire the construction of the scene. What's saddening is that the situation presented here is very real in certain corners of the world. A chilling, cautionary tale comes out of this effort, and it's unfortunately easy to see why people like Matt are "sucked in" by the words of pathetic people such as Carl.