Recommended by Rachel Feeny-Williams

I'm drawn to a fairy tale twist story automatically and the way Nora has combined two well known nursery rhymes is brilliantly done. She has created a great collection of characters which could easily be played by children and enjoyed by adults. As with other pieces she's written, Nora escalates the humour by gathering various characters on this journey to inform the king the sky is falling and then elegantly provides a superb twist at the end. Any teacher looking for a play for young children is recommended to give this a look!

Nora Syran truly has a gift for writing theatre that will delight and fascinate children. Right from the description of the stage and the list of characters I could see the delightful set this piece would create. From there going into the story it was a brilliant story sprinkled with humorous links to modern technology that would have children and adults giggling. The story builds as the characters all struggle to remember the name of a tree that will end their famine. The way Nora escalates the humour is very well done and ends with a great line!

This would make a brilliant piece for children's theatre. Its a great story that will have a school audience engaged with the jungle court system and leads us to the brilliant answer to the question in the title. In addition to be formatted brilliantly, reading it as an adult you can't help but feel sympathy for the mosquito. Its very well done and I think would be enjoyed by children who want an answer to the question "Why Mosquitoes Buzz in Our Ears"

Right from the description of the time I loved the powerful imagery set in this play. From there the dialogue just gets better and better with one character descending into an obsession with starfish! The complex way the characters flit between conversations about the pandemic, their relationship and gymnastics is wonderful. Then, just when you think it can't get any better, Rachael brings you a warm and beautiful ending which circles the whole piece with the beautiful thought "Everything will be alright, when there is someone there to catch you!"

As an avid player of Dungeons and dragons I was instantly drawn to this piece. Randy has definitely done justice to the world of dungeons and dragons. I found myself thinking part way through "oh my lords, that's how my group sounds!" Many congratulations to Randy for taking what can be a greatly mis-understood hobby and turned it into a funny wonderful piece of theatre about friendship and the powers of a great game! I'll make sure my dungeons and dragons group read it.

Plays about amateur dramatics is something I can automatically relate to, as will quite a few audience members. The brilliant idea of telling the whole show from the perspective of a nervous director from the wings is just fabulous! It presents one actor with a mammoth role but they couldn't ask for better. Its a fabulously funny piece that truly outlines "the show must go on" no mater how bad it gets!

I am a lover of Christmas and all things that give a Christmas feeling and the fact that a war was able to stop for one moment is a beautiful feeling. The writer has captured that feeling perfectly here. Initially sprinkling the piece with humour and confusion the writer then proceeds to expertly bring the audience full circle to a a beautiful ending. When things are not great, this, for me, is just the kind of play you need.

With Zoom meeting becoming a huge part of our lives, this play couldn't be more poignant for the current circumstances we all face. It is that, plus a brilliant array of characters and a family with a multi layer of problems, makes this easily relatable to any audience. Its very easy to see why its had such a prominent production history. Would be interesting to see it 'live' so to speak.

I always love a piece that brings the abstract of death to life as a character and this is one of the strongest plays of that kind I've ever read. There are so many notions that provide great humour but I think the idea of Death Inc is one of the best ones for me! The dry humour of the character of death is brilliantly balanced with the chaotic dialogue of Emily who has found him in her bathroom. It starts with the odd and moves up to the chaotic and ends fabulously. A truly great construction!

And this is why I don't watch horror movies! Don't misunderstand me, the piece is a brilliantly tense and terrifying moment in the characters life and as an audience member you are sat on the edge of your seat wanting to scream "Don't do it!" at the end. For a writer to be able to hold an audience in this way makes this a wonderfully written piece. I'm just glad I read it during the day! Don't think I'd have coped at night!