Beautifully nostalgic and quietly heartbreaking, The Camera, The Gerbil, and the Big, Wide World captures childhood friendship with tenderness and truth. Danley honors those small, fleeting moments that only reveal their full meaning years later.

A hauntingly accurate portrayal of childhood friendship, the first awkward tip-toes into adolesence, and the painful realization in adulthood that these precious fleeting moments represent far more than we realize in the moment as children. A gorgeous short play!

As someone who moved many times in childhood and left friends and memories in the review mirror of a station wagon, this play moved me to tears. A beautiful play about lasting friendship.