←Recommendations of Recent Impending Events

[2024-12-19]
Rarely do you see the tension between faith and science handled so deftly as it is in Nora Louise Syran's "Recent Impending Events." While the man flirts with the woman on a train trip, he makes it clear that his true love is the earth and all its natural beauty. This leads to a debate that, though familiar, takes unexpected turns and leaves the audience with plenty to think about.
This is a delightful two-hander I'd love to see on stage.

At once intimate and vast, this gentle, odd, erudite short play gives you a lot to sit with. Two strangers on a train wake up together, and Humanity’s place in the long sweep of geological and spiritual history gets debated while the coffee brews, and some of the earth’s (and America’s) great wonders flash by outside. Strange and lovely.

This short play didn't go where I thought it was going to, and it was a delightful surprise! A woman who has missed her stop on an overnight train and a geologist (my dad, also a geologist, would be thrilled with the representation!) have a long conversation about science and religion that is an actual dialogue instead of two people yelling at each other. Wouldn't it be great if real life could be like this? Lovely!