Bake Off by Sheri Wilner

"Sheri Wilner has concocted an original and laugh-out-loud satire on gender roles... Bake Off is barbed, witty, thoughtful, giggle and snort inducing and most of all compact; it accomplishes everything in 20 minutes tops."

"This short play is sure to have many productions...especially if it can be paired with an equally interesting, possibly contrasting, play. It will be a godsend to high school, college, and amateur theatre groups."

"Top honors go to Sheri Wilner's Bake Off, a devastatingly funny riff on the Pillsbury Bake-Off, in which contestant Rita, furious that a man won the previous year's grand prize for the first time, goes to any lengths to keep well-meaning Paul from repeating the other man's win."

"This hilarious chapter in the battle of the sexes, a twisted take-off on the Pillsbury Bake-Off...is a wonderful piece, and it deserves to be performed more often..."

"An uproarious release of closeted kitchen feminism, an explosively funny cry of 'foul' as another traditional woman's role (such as that of elementary teacher or nurse) is usurped by a man, once the job pays enough to warrant his effort."

"In Bake Off, the playwright Sheri Wilner has concocted an original and laugh-out-loud satire on gender roles. A brief one-act, it was the clear apex of this...Humana Festival of New American Plays here at the Actors Theater of Louisville... Bake Off is barbed, witty, thoughtful, giggle and snort inducing and most of all compact; it accomplishes everything in 20 minutes tops."

"Sheri Wilner's dark horse, dopey-sounding Bake Off was the unequivocal hit of the [Humana] Festival. Set at the Pillsbury Baking Competition in 1997 -- the year after the first-ever man took its first-ever million dollar prize -- Bake Off is crisply directed...bring[ing] out every nuance in Wilner's delicious writing... Truthfully, flour and eggs have never been so funny."

"Sheri Wilner's Bake Off mixes all the right ingredients into a compact tale of a female contestant in the Pillsbury Bake-Off who's on the warpath... Wilner is a name we should be hearing a lot more of."

"Bake Off by Sheri Wilner is a comedy bordering on farce...a battle of the sexes that's both hilarious and thoughtful."

"Sheri Wilner triumphed with Bake Off, a 10-minute comedy pummeling the Pillsbury Doughboy..."

"The icing on this cake was Sheri Wilner's Bake Off, a succinct and perfect mix of political wisdom and physical comedy. Rita is mightily scorched that the previous year, a man won the Pillsbury Bake-Off for the first time, walking off with the contest's largest prize ever. Her righteous indignation boils over, and the result includes a hilariously unpleasant rhubarb with the Pillsbury Doughboy. His giggle will never sound quite the same way again."

"The best developed show of the weekend was a comic romp, Bake Off by Sheri Wilner... Bake Off rises above the rest.