Recommended by Brent Alles

Our theater group has performed this in the past and it was great. I'm a sucker for this era, admittedly, but it's a nifty little character study of people from that time and still very funny as well. Teach your kids about the 70's, people! Or at least put on Ken's play and they can learn from there as well as laugh their heads off.

Our theater group had the pleasure and privelege of performing this play recently. It is terrifically sharp and funny and has some surprising poignancy as well. The main characters play off each other well, and the relationship between them is totally believable. Some great quips about the entertainment industry as well, not surprising considering Ken's backgroundin writing for TV. Highly recommend this for consideration for your theater group as well... it's great!

An excellent, suspenseful piece. The dread just keeps building throughout, and the mind is allowed to wonder just what the hell is going on outside as the walls seem to close in on Charlotte. Authentic voices for all involved, and the horror of the piece definitely stays with you well after you're finished reading it. It's rare that reading a play can get me to jump while seated on my couch... Mr. Kashner was able to accomplish that and more as I read through his masterful work of horror.

The work here... it slays. The incredible, immense, vivid imagery... universes unfolding, the hells we create for ourselves? This play prods, pokes, decimates, incinerates. Intimacy and distance folding in on one another. The shifts from creation to destruction and our own interpretations of those transpositions are put to a test here. One comes away from the work being taken through an often harrowing and yet thrilling and illuminating journey and awed by the worlds that are created from the tiniest of pebbles. An incredible piece.

A powerful, shattering work. The train metaphor is well served because one constantly senses it barreling down on these characters in its own inevitable way. There is so much of humanity in this piece contrasted with the inhumanity of the "corporate machine" that I was left in deep thought about the ideas contained within for a good time after completing my reading. Bray brings a unique and palpable rhythm to a terrifying and exhilarating modern mythology that ultimately provides a glimpse into a vivid, startling, and, yes, even sometimes wistfully joyful time shared by these fragile human engines.

An excellent piece! I love the concept, and it continue to surprise you all the way through. An unexpected ending that definitely has impact. The concepts expressed here are definitely a little bit uncomfortable in terms of where we might be headed, but isn't that what all speculative fiction is supposed to do? Really enjoyed reading this and definitely think audiences of many types would enjoy it as well.

A very interesting ten minute. You definitely would need a very skilled cast of actors to pull this off, to say the least, but I can see an audience having a lot of fun watching them do so! I enjoyed many of the puns here and was happy to have had a few "Captain America" "I understood that reference" moments. A fun piece!

I didn't think I was going to gain wisdom from a Shoebill Stork today, but here we are. An entertaining and absurd read that somehow still gives great meaning about the human condition even when it's coming from two actors dressed up like a giant bird. (Loved the "Sesame Street" reference, by the way, but I'm always a sucker for a good "Sesame Street" reference.) Picturing how this would be performed on stage definitely made me grin, and the rest of the play did a really good job of maintaining that grin throughout.

A raw and surprising piece. At first I thought I knew where it was going, but the playwright definitely still finds a way to shock at the end. An uncomfortable look at uncomfortable people, definitely messy, but an engrossing read nonetheless.

An enjoyably twisted read, filled with great moments where you laugh and then feel slightly guilty for doing so. But only slightly, as the "innocent" Riley is just so adorable, and there's a suitable air of mystery with her best friend Fred. A gonzo short play that definitely appeals to a certain sense of humor... luckily I fit nicely into that sense. :)