Recommended by Steven G. Martin

I love it. This 1-minute play runs afoul of so many "rules" about how to write plays and characters, what makes a good play or character, what theatre is and must be, etc. This play is chaos, just not the kind a person might expect.

Surprising and affecting. This 1-minute play provides nuanced shades of characterization for those who are violence-mongering, battlefield-bred, living embodiments of blood and destruction.

"Eight Tales of Pedro" is a kaleidoscope. With each turn, the audience feels different emotions, often contrary to those they just felt.

It is contemporary, but includes classic structure and content. It's filled with hardships and tragedy, but also humor and hope, and shows how telling stories forms a community out of strangers. There are tricksters and fools, but also people who have experienced adverse reality.

This play is rich in depth, subtlety, and theatricality. It is heartbreaking, yet hopeful. I also enjoyed a YouTube video of its premiere production at Secret Theatre in Long Island City, New York.

I don't care why a person invented what they invented; people will find a way to make it about sex.

That's why I love Lawing's irreverent, sexy, all-gay short play about today's technology being used for jerk-off clubs. Save the noble speeches about technology for someone else ... we are a horny people!

Oh, and the best line: "We are IT." Be careful: gay tech nerds are taking over the world one platform at a time!

I guarantee audiences will audibly gasp watching Rund's brilliant 10-minute tragedy. I did when reading the script. Twice.

Rund builds tension and discomfort in subtle, varied ways: a literal physical run-in; placing the scene in a small, confined location; evasions of direct questions; frenetic action in trying to rebuild what's been broken. And then comes the final two blows from the sledgehammer that will make people gasp.

This short monologue is humane, grim, and honest.

Mabey exposes the double-edged sword a lot people are facing during self-quarantining/physical distancing.

This one-minute play already has a varied development and production history, which is well deserved.

A brilliantly imagined and executed 10-minute play. It's a marvel.

For all the rules that some people prescribe to making "A Good 10-Minute Play," Pazniokas brushes aside most of them in order to focus on what (I feel) is the most important: tell an emotional story -- with the highest possible emotional stakes -- well.

Your audiences will be swept up by this play filled to bursting with characters, dialogue filled with straightforward information and implications, and such earnest emotions.

"Sirens" is a tart twist on mythology, as Lee provides a new perspective to some classic characters in this one-minute play. A little dark, a lot of fun.

Azure D Osborne-Lee knows what you're thinking. Azure D Osborne-Lee knows what you expect. And holy wow, do they play with those notions in this laugh-out-loud, one-minute comedy.

That moment when a child realizes a parent is an individual with their own interests, not just someone who cares for them and accedes to their every wish. That moment when empathy and understanding are heightened, honed and expanded. Cathro dramatizes that moment in this short drama with two great roles for women actors.