Jewish Plays Project would like to acknowledge that WHAT WE NEED AT THE END OF THE DAY... received Commended status for our first Ten Minute Play Contest OOF: On One Foot, which searched nationally for plays from artists of all backgrounds responding to our prompt on healing & repair. Our Artist Panel readers appreciated the craft, style, and creativity, as well as how it theatrically expressed the first annual contest theme of healing & repair.

In just a few pages this excellent play hits hard. It is always difficult to say goodbye, but when there is so much hurt and so much left unsaid, it's difficult to forgive, and therefore to say those goodbyes.
The dialogue Brian uses is intense, close, gritty, yet there is so much live hear which is still apparent.
So moving.

This beautiful play about closure for family in a father’s final moments reveals how complicated our familial relationships can be, especially if we are estranged from a parent and have to deal with unexpected loss. This play deals more with siblings than parent-child bonding, even though we don’t know much about the brother/sister relationship, which is what makes the play so fascinating to me. How has the father’s lack of affection impacted the siblings’ relationship? Maybe this a new start for them. This is a gift for actors.