←Recommendations of Pussygrabber

This monologue shook me. It is both deeply personal and enormously universal. My pulse quickened as Gina Femia boldly, heart-breakingingly revealed the meaning of pussygrabbing. Her beautiful use of language is visceral, theatrical and lyrical.

I feel this monologue in my soul. With universality in her specificity, Gina Femia nails both the unmooring so many of us felt when a pussygrabber ascended to the highest office in the land, as well as the thoughts and feelings of a young woman trapped by her own personal pussygrabber. The toggling between the two is genius and the writing is fantastic.

The flitting back and forth between the political and the sexual makes you sit up and take notice as you think about what this girl (and America) are going through as they both of their experience of having themselves violated. I found myself angry that it got to the point of faking it for the central character to be released. This is a piece that will resonate with audiences and it will make them uncomfortable but that is sometimes what great theatre is about, forcing the audience to face a certain reality and a certain idea.

This raw, open wound of a monologue hits hard and is terrifyingly real and relatable. Like a lyrical poem and a stream of consciousness play, the words fall and strike and will drown you with their honesty. Hopefully a hand will reach out soon, but 4 years of drowning will be hard to recover from and this monologue will stick with you for awhile as well.

Visceral, real, and relevant. This monologue captures not just a personal moment for the teller, but a universal moment for many of the women in our country. I hope, after January 20th of this year, that Femia has the opportunity to write a follow-up that brims with victory and healing and hope. For now, this brilliant and painful piece has left me gutted.

"Pussygrabber" is not an easy piece to read and would probably be less easy to hear or see. Reading it allows me to be both personally intrigued by it but at the same time, attached only to the extent I want to be. It is a singular experience to READ it. But hearing or seeing it, there is now the added injection of a second point of view, that of the performer. There now exists an unspoken sense of accusation. I can't so easily divest myself from the material. I'm involved whether I like it or not. Powerful stuff.

The personal and political are masterfully fused in this visceral, raw, and undeniably powerful piece of writing. This glimpse into a longer work is compelling and promises to be an important document of the horror we're all grappling with. Watch this space!

Living in a political climate that is fraught with daily deception, denials, and bald-faced lying, our art demands us to be unashamedly honest, open, and forthright. In “Pussygrabber,” Gina Femia bravely answers the call. The truth hurts, and this piece will make you uncomfortable... but we all need to hear it. A daring and fearless work.

A tour-de-force, raw and real. This is a play that perfecty encapsulates the emotional, physical and cognitive dissonance of this moment we're living through. Brilliant, and so painful.

Femia's poetic solo, politically- and sexually-charged, reminds me of the best of uncensored punk writer Kathy Acker. In a few words, this playwright shows and says so much about herself and other women's relation to their body and their partner, and also in relation to the political sphere/this American moment in history. If produced, this would have a powerful effect on the audience.