←Recommendations of Three Year Summer

  • Shaun Leisher: Three Year Summer by Amy Berryman
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    Berryman beautifully captures the magic the internet held in its infancy for nerds who wanted to find a place where people who loved the same things they did went. This is a coming of age story but really for all three members of this family. Yes it's about Tommie coming into her sexuality and figuring out adolescence but you also have these parents figuring out their kid and themselves. Setting this play in the specific time of the years in between Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix is a stroke of genius. I love this play!!

    Berryman beautifully captures the magic the internet held in its infancy for nerds who wanted to find a place where people who loved the same things they did went. This is a coming of age story but really for all three members of this family. Yes it's about Tommie coming into her sexuality and figuring out adolescence but you also have these parents figuring out their kid and themselves. Setting this play in the specific time of the years in between Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix is a stroke of genius. I love this play!!

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  • Jack William Rodgers: Three Year Summer by Amy Berryman
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    I think what this play does really well is it captures the purest of adolescent joy and puts it onto the page. Whether or not you were super into Harry Potter or not, I think that anyone can relate to the feeling of being 13 years old and being unbelievably excited about something in the same way that Tommie and Pat are about HP.

    I think what this play does really well is it captures the purest of adolescent joy and puts it onto the page. Whether or not you were super into Harry Potter or not, I think that anyone can relate to the feeling of being 13 years old and being unbelievably excited about something in the same way that Tommie and Pat are about HP.

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  • Kate Langsdorf: Three Year Summer by Amy Berryman
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    I read "Three Year Summer" with a big batch of other scripts a few months ago. I don't remember the other plays very well, but I keep coming back to this one. It feels to me like the right blend of uplifting and devastating. I've never read a Harry Potter book nor seen any of the movies (I know, I should), but even with the lack of insider knowledge, the world and fandom were vividly drawn and the characters were well-developed and completely relatable.

    I read "Three Year Summer" with a big batch of other scripts a few months ago. I don't remember the other plays very well, but I keep coming back to this one. It feels to me like the right blend of uplifting and devastating. I've never read a Harry Potter book nor seen any of the movies (I know, I should), but even with the lack of insider knowledge, the world and fandom were vividly drawn and the characters were well-developed and completely relatable.

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