Recommended by Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos

I’m a sucker for metatheatre and a sucker for flip-flopping realities, and this play has both. But Martineau doesn’t stop at form, using the “diversity and inclusion” theme as his vehicle. A really fun, short play, perfect for high school festivals, that also carries a meaningful message. Got an upcoming competition? Check this one out!

Even if you don’t appreciate handmade soap, you’ll get where Ariel is coming from. A day in the life of lockdown and the smallest things that tortured or kept us going. Cathro captures that in fine detail through this short play.

This play will make you want to curl up in a ball and die laughing. If you’re a parent - or have ever been a kid- you’ve been here, though maybe not precisely in this form. Painfully funny!

Empathy and revenge are served raw in this short play set in one of the darkest places imaginable. Heavily laden with foreboding, it ends just as you know it will. And that’s what’s so upsetting. This one will stay with you a while.

The lesson of this play? Should you ever meet Satan, do not engage! A fun, irreverent short play perfect for any 10 minute festival.

Goldfish logic is something we can all get behind. A short monologue that simultaneously has me rooting for Gyda while being thankful she's not my partner. A fun read!

Ha! You really should be careful who claim you want to meet when you pass on. A fun, one-minute respite.

The host of the podcast, SHErmit, is understandably wound a little tight. Laid-off and living alone with two cats doesn’t bring out her sunny side. Who among us has not lived some version of this in the last year? This monologue/one woman show with miles of range would be a fine choice for competition. And a fun, well developed character to play, too.

For all your theatre friends who take musical theater a little too seriously, this cute short play presents a world where life, language, and desires live out loud in an ongoing musical-in-real-life. I enjoyed the cheeky show references and artful alliteration. A lot of fun!

Occupying a neighboring world to "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "A Handmaid's Tale", "Practice House" is one of the most lyrical and unique plays I've read on NPX. Carnes keeps us continually off balance with the play's murky, anachronistic setting and gauzy, veil-like dialogue. Robust roles for five women, highly theatrical, and timely in its confrontation of the socio-political landscape of 21st century America. A smart, pointed piece, this is the play for every theatre who claims to do edgy productions.