Recommended by Nora Louise Syran

  • Nora Louise Syran: Heartburn by Daniel Prillaman
    “

    Wow! This short three-hander roped me in from start to finish...is it, finished? Nope, you can't unhear this one. Bravo, Daniel Prillaman.

    Wow! This short three-hander roped me in from start to finish...is it, finished? Nope, you can't unhear this one. Bravo, Daniel Prillaman.

    ”
  • Nora Louise Syran: Punxsutawney Phil is Sick of This Shit: a monologue for a pissed off deity by Hayley St. James
    “

    This rodent doesn't get enough respect. An adorably angry monologue. Well done.

    This rodent doesn't get enough respect. An adorably angry monologue. Well done.

    ”
  • Nora Louise Syran: That Kind of Boy [a 1-minute play] by Steven G. Martin
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    Short and SWEET!

    Short and SWEET!

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  • Nora Louise Syran: Oh, No! I Flew Too Close to the Sun! by Rand Higbee
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    Hysterical! Oh, poor people-pleasing Festus! Will he get his role of Icarus and the timing of his one line right or should have have signed up to play Sisyphus!? A fun meta-theatrical short play with superb moments for the sound and costume/props designers. Fun!

    Hysterical! Oh, poor people-pleasing Festus! Will he get his role of Icarus and the timing of his one line right or should have have signed up to play Sisyphus!? A fun meta-theatrical short play with superb moments for the sound and costume/props designers. Fun!

    ”
  • Nora Louise Syran: TROUBLE MAKER by Charles Scott Jones
    “

    Sister Eliesa tries to preserve an archive and a scandalous photo reappears... This sounds completely banal as an attempt of a synopsis as Charles Scott Jones's intriguing shifts in the chronology of this story keep us "cycling back to Nietzsche" in a most transfixingly visual, visceral and theatrical way --with "jungle-like echoes that move backward through time." This play is at times, absurd but then entirely logical. All at once. Quick paced and quotable and then another fantastic (as in remote from reality) notion takes hold. And we're off. Enter that stage horse again!

    Sister Eliesa tries to preserve an archive and a scandalous photo reappears... This sounds completely banal as an attempt of a synopsis as Charles Scott Jones's intriguing shifts in the chronology of this story keep us "cycling back to Nietzsche" in a most transfixingly visual, visceral and theatrical way --with "jungle-like echoes that move backward through time." This play is at times, absurd but then entirely logical. All at once. Quick paced and quotable and then another fantastic (as in remote from reality) notion takes hold. And we're off. Enter that stage horse again!

    ”
  • Nora Louise Syran: The Care and Feeding of Restless Spirits by Aly Kantor
    “

    Loved this! Felt like a feminist Blithe Spirit meets Stage Door. Four loveable females, one stage magician (who is metaphorically putting his woman in a box and sawing her in half!) and simple staging -- but with plenty of fun details for lights and sound. Kantor conjures up an enlightening and entertaining evening at the theatre.

    Loved this! Felt like a feminist Blithe Spirit meets Stage Door. Four loveable females, one stage magician (who is metaphorically putting his woman in a box and sawing her in half!) and simple staging -- but with plenty of fun details for lights and sound. Kantor conjures up an enlightening and entertaining evening at the theatre.

    ”
  • Nora Louise Syran: Sins of Emission (Monologue) by Donald E. Baker
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    Growing up is difficult enough without dreading the reason why your friends are dreaming about Marilyn Monroe and you are not. A poignant prequel to Donald E. Baker's play Best Friends.

    Growing up is difficult enough without dreading the reason why your friends are dreaming about Marilyn Monroe and you are not. A poignant prequel to Donald E. Baker's play Best Friends.

    ”
  • Nora Louise Syran: Next Stop Utopia by Christopher Soucy
    “

    Who could make the prospect of a character speaking to the Subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth exciting? Only Christopher Soucy. Bravo.

    Who could make the prospect of a character speaking to the Subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth exciting? Only Christopher Soucy. Bravo.

    ”
  • Nora Louise Syran: UNHEARD (10-minutes) by Glenn Alterman
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    Sometimes it takes an external force to push us along, hopefully in the right direction. Loved the use of the OVERHEAD VOICE. Bravo.

    Sometimes it takes an external force to push us along, hopefully in the right direction. Loved the use of the OVERHEAD VOICE. Bravo.

    ”
  • Nora Louise Syran: Yours Until Niagara Falls by Claudia Haas
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    An epistolary passage through history, through the exchanged notes, letters, phone calls and emails between Lina and Izzy. Technology and their communication with one another rushes us along with them toward the play's climax. Haas leaves us with such rich memories of two people we have come to know. intimately. Through allusions to history, religion, the Beatles, perms, Vietnam, theatre, music... their childhood hopes and dreams become ours. Lovely.

    An epistolary passage through history, through the exchanged notes, letters, phone calls and emails between Lina and Izzy. Technology and their communication with one another rushes us along with them toward the play's climax. Haas leaves us with such rich memories of two people we have come to know. intimately. Through allusions to history, religion, the Beatles, perms, Vietnam, theatre, music... their childhood hopes and dreams become ours. Lovely.

    ”