A Mother and Child wait outside the school for the doors to open.
Written for 2025 Playwright's Delight, TITLE: 37 Origami Bees
A Mother and Child wait outside the school for the doors to open.
Written for 2025 Playwright's Delight, TITLE: 37 Origami Bees
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Jack Levine:
37 Origami Bees
by Nora Louise Syran
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NORA LOUISE SYRAN in her short play, “37 Origami Bees”, beautifully encapsulates the feelings of a child who has lost a friend. It’s part of the growing up process to learn to connect, communicate, care about others. But, as we do, our feelings can be ‘crushed’. This is a beautiful piece to read.
NORA LOUISE SYRAN in her short play, “37 Origami Bees”, beautifully encapsulates the feelings of a child who has lost a friend. It’s part of the growing up process to learn to connect, communicate, care about others. But, as we do, our feelings can be ‘crushed’. This is a beautiful piece to read.
”
Christopher Plumridge:
37 Origami Bees
by Nora Louise Syran
“
A lovely short, tender play, with a sting in its tail. This child brings so much love to a creature that is potentially fatal to her. And as one bee dies, she brings another one to life, albeit in paper.
Beautiful.
A lovely short, tender play, with a sting in its tail. This child brings so much love to a creature that is potentially fatal to her. And as one bee dies, she brings another one to life, albeit in paper.
Beautiful.
”
Scott Sickles:
37 Origami Bees
by Nora Louise Syran
“
Friendships come and go. But when you're a little kid and a friendship ends, you still have to see them every day. No matter how far away they are, they're still too close, and no matter how close they are, they're still so far away - in one way or another. Syran beautifully depicts the isolation in captivity that pervades elementary school disintegrations, leaving just enough of a clue as to why. There's beautiful sorrow and pathos in this exchange culminating in a visually stunning landing.
Friendships come and go. But when you're a little kid and a friendship ends, you still have to see them every day. No matter how far away they are, they're still too close, and no matter how close they are, they're still so far away - in one way or another. Syran beautifully depicts the isolation in captivity that pervades elementary school disintegrations, leaving just enough of a clue as to why. There's beautiful sorrow and pathos in this exchange culminating in a visually stunning landing.
