←Recommendations of Mirrors

Devastating ten-minute play about love and survival, powerfully and beautifully written and with two magnificent roles (a mother and daughter) for women actors. Essential for our time and any time.

This just wrecked me. A woman dealing with having part of her ripped away is comforted by her mother who has a unique insight to her daughter's pain. Powerfully told, this play should be required viewing.

Femia has such a gift for capturing fly on the wall moments in people's lives. This is a heavy moment between mother and daughter but Femia is able to show the love and connection especially in the moments when nothing is said.

A powerful and disturbing piece about rape and survival. This can and should be produced everywhere.

A work of heartwrenching honesty about the devastation of sexual assault and the aftermath. Playwright Femia writes about two women and the fears and experiences they often tragically share. A call to all people that this situation is very real.

GINA FEMIA has written a riveting short play of the emotions, consequences, and responses to a sexual assault. In “MIRRORS”, a mother and daughter try to come to terms with the ugliness of a drunken man sexually assaulting a woman and what the outcome of this horrible event could mean to the woman and others.

MIRRORS is a poetic gut punch that juxtaposes sweet, nostalgic images with the brutal horror of remembered rape. Adding to its sharpness is the cruel reality that those who struggle to believe us are often the ones who have the greatest reason to, because once upon a time they lived the same thing and were silenced.

Mother and daughter - barely a generation apart but the lens is different. A harrowing short play about what we convince ourselves and what really happened. There’s a hope that things have improved just a wee bit years later, but a sadness that it’s so slight. A moving affirmation for the Me, Too movement and festivals. Beautiful roles for two actresses.

MIRRORS is a devastating, beautiful, haunting exploration of the wounds and secrets we carry, the seemingly inevitable cycle of sexual abuse, assault, and rape. Femia has an utterly unique approach to the topics she tackles in her plays.

Haunting and visceral. I think sometimes that people have a hard time supporting victims because if they accept that these victims were assaulted or raped, these people would have to accept that they were as well. With MIRRORS Femia shows tremendous care toward both of her characters and the subject at hand.