←Recommendations of Throwing Rocks (Short Play)

Relationships are so hard to begin with and when those relationships that seem to end be it by mutual agreement or those that don't, the end and parting and coming to terms with that end is so hard and even we pull out the game face that everyone expects to put on, the pain and fear and sadness sometimes becomes too hard for us to bare. This play has an urgency to it and also a haunting one that will break your heart when you finish!

Molly's desperate longing and heart-breaking denial are finely wrought. We stand by as engaged and as helpless as Ellie in our desire to see her pain eased. But we are left knowing and regretting that it can't be eased. This is a most compelling portrait of grief.

About as sharply incisive a play about loss, denial, grief, and despair as one can get, Lamedman still imbues this script with a lightness that makes it all the more compelling – and haunting. A deeply moving, truly gorgeous work.

I love THROWING ROCKS because as delusional as Molly is, her yearning for Jack's return is that aching emotion so many of us feel when we miss someone and imagine footsteps in the hallway or any of the trigger sounds that signal an approach. Rocks as the object is well-chosen because the time-honored strategy for a young suitor to get his lover's attention is to toss pebbles against the bedroom window, but marriage requires something larger and jagged, more painful. Debbie Lamedman's play is so sad and beautiful and it reminds me somehow of Beckett's Happy Days. Insightful work.

Fraught, atmospheric, and deeply soulful, THROWING ROCKS is (literally and figuratively) haunting. Lamedman creates a pervasive sense of loss and grief with Molly, though both roles have a lot of gravity to them. It’s the kind of play where you can practically smell the night air. I suspect, it's also a play that gets deeper and more nuanced the more it's read and experienced. So somebody get this into rehearsal. Just prepare to be haunted.

This is such a compelling piece; we can feel Molly's need for her husband, Jack, to return. We can feel Ellie's earnest wish to help her friend. I hope we encounter these characters again!

To so clearly develop a character arc in a 5-minute play is a gift and Lamedman delivers a poignant and powerful plot line that portrays the psychological down spiral of one woman's failure to cope with the loss of her spouse. A tightly-written treasure of a play!