←Recommendations of Fireflies

  • Enid Cokinos: Fireflies by Conor McShane
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    FIREFLIES is a perfect mixture of spookiness and humor as these two lonely characters from beyond the veil connect by the ghost light in an old theatre. A wonderful play for any festival, but a slam-dunk for a Halloween or ghost-themed event.

    FIREFLIES is a perfect mixture of spookiness and humor as these two lonely characters from beyond the veil connect by the ghost light in an old theatre. A wonderful play for any festival, but a slam-dunk for a Halloween or ghost-themed event.

    ”
  • Cam Eickmeyer: Fireflies by Conor McShane
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    This would be a powerful play to watch performed. The setup and scene is incredibly rich despite being so very simple. The supernatural elements are charmingly unique and the characters are still so very human. We connect to them and need more time around this ghost light to learn their stories. Or maybe not, maybe the point is just walking in the dark together.

    This would be a powerful play to watch performed. The setup and scene is incredibly rich despite being so very simple. The supernatural elements are charmingly unique and the characters are still so very human. We connect to them and need more time around this ghost light to learn their stories. Or maybe not, maybe the point is just walking in the dark together.

    ”
  • Scott Sickles: Fireflies by Conor McShane
    “

    What a lovely play. McShane pulls off a few miracles: a chatterbox who we want to keep talking, a vacant stoic who exudes the perfect flicker of warmth, and an afterlife/limbo play that only looks like something we’ve seen before but is absolutely unique. The world building is simple but exquisite, imagining a void that allows the dead to roam while they forget. It’s also filled with danger. Our heroes may be dead but they are definitely not safe. How lucky they are to have found each other. How lucky we are to witness it!

    What a lovely play. McShane pulls off a few miracles: a chatterbox who we want to keep talking, a vacant stoic who exudes the perfect flicker of warmth, and an afterlife/limbo play that only looks like something we’ve seen before but is absolutely unique. The world building is simple but exquisite, imagining a void that allows the dead to roam while they forget. It’s also filled with danger. Our heroes may be dead but they are definitely not safe. How lucky they are to have found each other. How lucky we are to witness it!

    ”
  • Paul Donnelly: Fireflies by Conor McShane
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    The Figures in this play are clearly drawn, one new to this world, on seemingly exhausted by it. Weighty issues of mortality and the nature of the afterlife are woven seamlessly through the piece, as Figure 1 struggles to understand the meaning of the darkness which surrounds her and to cling to the memories of her former life. I was as drawn to the ghost light as any firefly.

    The Figures in this play are clearly drawn, one new to this world, on seemingly exhausted by it. Weighty issues of mortality and the nature of the afterlife are woven seamlessly through the piece, as Figure 1 struggles to understand the meaning of the darkness which surrounds her and to cling to the memories of her former life. I was as drawn to the ghost light as any firefly.

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  • Christopher Soucy: Fireflies by Conor McShane
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    Moody and beautiful. This short script is evocative and penetrating. It cries out to be produced, dripping with ingenious staging. I love the ease in which the audience is immersed in a philosophical meditation on life, death, and beyond.

    Moody and beautiful. This short script is evocative and penetrating. It cries out to be produced, dripping with ingenious staging. I love the ease in which the audience is immersed in a philosophical meditation on life, death, and beyond.

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  • Dakota Pariset: Fireflies by Conor McShane
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    “Fireflies” is a truly beautiful short play. McShane has a great knack for addressing the heavier themes of things like mortality, the afterlife, and the transience of our what we leave behind, and in that meditation, still finds the hope of it all. A very malleable and recommended piece for festival or featured production.

    “Fireflies” is a truly beautiful short play. McShane has a great knack for addressing the heavier themes of things like mortality, the afterlife, and the transience of our what we leave behind, and in that meditation, still finds the hope of it all. A very malleable and recommended piece for festival or featured production.

    ”