Bones Like Dust

**A work in progress

Worlds collide when Richard, a pedologist, comes to Jeni's rural shack to study her dirt. When an unexpected storm hits, trapping Richard on her porch, secrets and ghosts are revealed. Bones Like Dust is a 2-person, real time piece that explores art, faith and science and wonders what happens when home disappears.
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Bones Like Dust

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  • Nick Malakhow:
    9 Feb. 2021
    I was thoroughly engaged throughout this briskly-moving real time play. From electric, hilarious, and energetic opening to haunting ending, I appreciated the emotional and stylistic scope of this piece. As with all of Femia's plays, the central characters were rendered with such complexity and nuance, and their brief but potent interaction felt plausible and exciting. The theatricality of the rain heightened the spare lyrical/natural balance of the text. I'd so love to see this realized onstage with inventive design, direction, and acting--a production team has so much to work with here!
  • Reinette LeJeune:
    11 Jan. 2021
    Such a tender and witty 2 character play. Gina Femia’s poetry is at the forefront and underbelly of this achingly haunted play; it works it’s way inside as you’re reading (and I assume experiencing in person) and plants it’s flag right at the summit of your mind. The subject matter is handled with a strong sense of responsibility for those seeking to survive.
  • Jordan Elizabeth Henry:
    2 Apr. 2018
    "I didn't know that living and surviving were two different things, but they were."

    This play is haunting, moving, and gorgeous. I had major shivers at the end. Femia's poetry and rhythms get lodged inside your head and work away at you.

Development History

  • Reading
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    Lather, Rinse, Repeat: A Playwrights Collective
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    2016