←Recommendations of let's make a fort

The pure honesty and simplicity of this play takes you to being tiny. The life transition between being able to talk about how cute it is when your kid poops to a world where talking about poop is social suicide...these are huge things wrapped in a sweet, backyard package of innocence and fireflies. You feel the parents offstage, being adults, and the kids are wrapped in very important business of their own right outside. Growing up. The title alone fills me with memories and peace.

Delightful portrays the earnestness, intensity, and imagination of young people. An excellent option for elementary and junior high acting classes.

I love this play so much! Sweet, silly, with a deep well of emotion that bubbles beneath the surface - a group of childhood friends stand on the bridge between childhood and adulthood, looking forwards and backwards. This is my favorite thing that I've read in a long time, and I can not recommend this play enough!

In Heesun Hwang's beautiful ode to the somewhat-lost freedom of childhood, "let's make a fort" bubbles with charm, innocence, and bittersweet recognition of the moment when children understand for themselves that childhood- and everything it represents- is a finite experience in a person's life. There is no cloying cuteness to the children in this play. Hwang captures their intensity and respects the value of their perspectives as much as one would for adult characters. There is depth and darkness but there is buoyancy and light. Simply put, it's an astonishingly beautiful play.

This play beautifully captures the innocence of childhood and how our natural sense of play never really leaves us. These are characters I really enjoyed spending time with and imagining the adults they are going to become.

A beautiful story filled with the major and minor victories and losses and other emotional moments incurred during an average summer afternoon.

Hwang's talent at writing natural dialogue for a group of friends is unmistakable. Add that the friends are in their teens and younger, then it's even more remarkable.