11.06.24 - I don't know whether I picked the best day to read this or the worst, but one thing's for sure; it's certainly an appropriate one, considering the state of our world. This was sad, chilling and yet, there is a glimmer of hope imbued throughout. Both Felicity and John have experiences with birds that have an affect on their lives, and now, at the seeming end of all avian life on Earth, they reflect on those experiences. Maybe there's still something to hope for out there on the winds.

We already know species have gone extinct, and there are those for whom the loss of a member of the animal kingdom is simply an inconvenience. In Bultrowicz's sadly elegiac play, he contemplates the future extinction of a whole class of treasurable fauna, and let's not pretend to ourselves it's impossible. At the end, a faint glimmer of hope is offered, but it's so implausible as to not dispel the overall despair. A touching, well-written little play about global warming and the natural world.