←Recommendations of Bones Like Dust

I heard Gones Like Dust at Clamour Theatre's Clay and Water Readings a few weeks ago in early MArch 2025 and the images and characters of the play are still in my brain. There is mystery, poetry and acute suspense throughout this story of two unlikely people who happen to come together in a profound way. The play is full of magic from beginning to end, beautifully written and structured, and adds up to nothing less than a kind of awakening. This play would be a peach to produce and needs to be!

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!

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.

"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.

A unique and smart play about how faith and science are not the opposing forces we are led to believe.

A lovely, intelligent, witty 2-hander. I can't wait to see how it develops!