←Recommendations of THE PHYSICS FOR POETS CLUB

This is such a smart ensemble play. Educational and emotional at the same time, this is the way we encourage our young women to "be their own trumpeters" but also to use their creative brains and see a better future. There is a reason the arts & sciences are often lumped together, because they belong together. The audience as well as the whole cast and crew will leave this show much smarter and much more inspired.

Women in STEM! Women in STEM!

It’ll hit all of us at probably a different point in Syran’s weaving, history-spanning epic of four detentionees tasked with writing a fairly complex essay: “How far have the sciences progressed since the Enlightenment? And how far haven’t women’s rights?” At once a condemnation of this, and a celebration of the great and genius minds who broke through it all, this is a fantastic play for all audiences. Filled with depth (for the modern & historical characters alike), and evocative of the greatest human aspirations. Excellently constructed.

A beauty of a play for students who missed the memo that women have always been involved in science and mathematics. Syran cleverly brings us some of the most influential women of their times and ties it to today’s world. This play is ripe for a teen cast in a high school or university setting. You’ll smile. You’ll laugh. And you’ll google these women. Because you should have known about them in your lessons. Syran rectifies their omission. Read. Produce.

In THE PHYSICS FOR POETS CLUB, Nora Louise Syran takes us on a fantastical journey rooted in real-life women from history that's as educational as it is entertaining. And the core group of women feel like an updated version of The Breakfast Club while taking us back and forth in time. The inclusion of historical and scientific facts is such an interesting addition to the cast of vibrant characters, too.

A quartet of colorful, larger-than-life, and deliciously specific teenage girls are at the center of this silly-yet-educational play, which takes the Breakfast Club trope to fascinating new heights! I love the way history comes to life all around them, complete with some cunning stage combat! These roles would be a dream for an ensemble of versatile performers. Plus, I love it when girls are allowed to be angry and passionate and a little messy, and this play is full of complex, brilliant, and flawed women - often speaking in their own voices. A fantastic update to a great script!