Recommended by Claudia Haas

  • Claudia Haas: BOXING DAY, 1835 by Monica Cross
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    “I was working.” An old-age excuse with truth. The play is set in 1835 but resonates today. Family, siblings, missed holidays - all truths in our memory bank. A memory that Monica Cross dishes up with love and regret.

    “I was working.” An old-age excuse with truth. The play is set in 1835 but resonates today. Family, siblings, missed holidays - all truths in our memory bank. A memory that Monica Cross dishes up with love and regret.

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  • Claudia Haas: Please, Don't Go by Neil Radtke
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    What can you do in one minute? A lot. Powerful and poignant. Life turns on a dime. Radke’s play illuminates that.

    What can you do in one minute? A lot. Powerful and poignant. Life turns on a dime. Radke’s play illuminates that.

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  • Claudia Haas: Persephone Wasn't Hungry That Day by Aly Kantor
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    A reminder that if you’re hungry, just eat the dam**ed food. A beautiful foreplay of food expectations and love/lust. They go together. Like a horse and carriage.

    A reminder that if you’re hungry, just eat the dam**ed food. A beautiful foreplay of food expectations and love/lust. They go together. Like a horse and carriage.

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  • Claudia Haas: CONFLICT ON A BENCH (a 10 minute play) by Marj O'Neill-Butler
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    Time doesn’t heal all wounds. Especially the ones you suffered in childhood. O’Neill-Butler captures a past and a present in a succinct and knowing manner. Heartfelt and unusual roles for senior actors.

    Time doesn’t heal all wounds. Especially the ones you suffered in childhood. O’Neill-Butler captures a past and a present in a succinct and knowing manner. Heartfelt and unusual roles for senior actors.

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  • Claudia Haas: Off Center by Jacquelyn Floyd-Priskorn
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    Filled with surprises, happy and poignant, this is a play that begs to be produced. The role of Melody is a gift to actresses and the guards who letdown their guard are flesh and bone and nuanced. Charming and sweet with the knowledge of what can be robbed from you for no reason at all. Abstract art. Abstract life.

    Filled with surprises, happy and poignant, this is a play that begs to be produced. The role of Melody is a gift to actresses and the guards who letdown their guard are flesh and bone and nuanced. Charming and sweet with the knowledge of what can be robbed from you for no reason at all. Abstract art. Abstract life.

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  • Claudia Haas: CREAK by Jacquelyn Floyd-Priskorn
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    What a moment! Succinct and very scary in a New York minute. Floyd-Priskorn just captured our world.

    What a moment! Succinct and very scary in a New York minute. Floyd-Priskorn just captured our world.

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  • Claudia Haas: Junior Moment by Lucy Wang
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    This has one of the best touché moments that I’ve seen in a play. Read it and laugh. It’s A great addition to GI60’s Anniversary Production.

    This has one of the best touché moments that I’ve seen in a play. Read it and laugh. It’s A great addition to GI60’s Anniversary Production.

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  • Claudia Haas: Fan C Cuts by Jacquelyn Floyd-Priskorn
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    I love fairy tale mashups especially from the view of unknown characters. Floyd-Priskon gives us a fleeting glimpse of an unknown lady in waiting and shows us that you don’t need a Prince Charming to live happily ever after (although good hair is helpful),

    I love fairy tale mashups especially from the view of unknown characters. Floyd-Priskon gives us a fleeting glimpse of an unknown lady in waiting and shows us that you don’t need a Prince Charming to live happily ever after (although good hair is helpful),

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  • Claudia Haas: Indoor Cats by Mora V. Harris
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    Cats and catastrophe and Covid. Birds and babies and blues. And love. Imperfect, wild, tame, and (sometimes) bliss. A tale of creating, recreating and finding what is needed and wanted. A play that includes Covid without it being centerstage. The relationships take that honor. Gorgeous, imaginative play.

    Cats and catastrophe and Covid. Birds and babies and blues. And love. Imperfect, wild, tame, and (sometimes) bliss. A tale of creating, recreating and finding what is needed and wanted. A play that includes Covid without it being centerstage. The relationships take that honor. Gorgeous, imaginative play.

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  • Claudia Haas: Poseidon and the Sea Nymph by Scott Sickles
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    It’s easy to judge Abel. Even easier to judge Lydia. Sickles’ chance encounter makes you rethink, tropes, appearances, and the necessity of tea but he never makes you rethink the quality of kindness.

    It’s easy to judge Abel. Even easier to judge Lydia. Sickles’ chance encounter makes you rethink, tropes, appearances, and the necessity of tea but he never makes you rethink the quality of kindness.

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