←Recommendations of the wild ones

This is a poignant, fun, 90s-nostalgia-laced (thank you for the Titanic reference) "adaptation." I definitely recommend.

I loved everything about this play--how it explored, exploded, and refracted "Little Women," how it gave distinct and potent voice to well-drawn contemporary teens, how it explored queerness and coming of age in all of its struggle without feeling exploitative or tragic. I especially loved the bombastic theatricality of it, the three layers of "reality," and how those layers interacted with one another. Excited to see where this goes and to see it on a stage in the near future I hope!

I am fascinated with this play. I desperately want to see it on stage someday! There is so much to play with, both with the staging and the characters themselves. But the real highlight for me was the dialogue. I am in love with the way Femia writes dialogue. It's beautiful.

As a child, I was seriously, adamantly, repulsed by the idea that I had to read Little Women and like it because I was a "little woman" and I was expected to understand and resonate with it. Now I get it. Sure. I like it. But Femia's piece seems to understand why I am can like Little Women and why I so much didn't want to as a kid. "it's high concept!" as it says in the piece and it makes for a ton of fun asking to collaborate on every page with whatever lucky cast first gets a shot.

This script is in awesome conversation with "Little Women" I really dig how the three through lines play off each other and forward. Wonderfully theatrical and smart. Femia invites collaborators to so many cool moments. Would love to see this on stage!

This is a play for anyone who fell in love with Little Women the way that Jo "fell in love" with Professor Bhaer - for every queer kid who got so tired of searching for the queerness in "universal stories" that they said "Found it. I guess this is enough," and let it sustain them. This piece is a quiet, chaotic primal scream of truth and theatricality, and I am so glad it exists because so many girls are going to find themselves somewhere in this play.

the wild ones is an absolute, pulsating, completely alive delight. Femia brilliantly allows time and storytelling to echo across scenes, completely queering our Jo and Laurie as their love-ish story ripples across adaptations and expectations. It's also stunning the way adaptation itself is challenged here - how do stories reach across time and space? what ripples should we hear and which ones should we ignore? really beautiful got emotional gonna put "time time the time time time" on a tshirt.

When Gina Femia calls this "high concept" into which she's "leaning in", you know you're in for a brilliant ride. Smashing different time frames together while creating a "Thursday Next"-style out-of-book life for fictional characters, who react when they are read in the real world, is hugely satisfying. Slipping seamlessly between different eras of "wildness" and finding new ways to explore topics of identity, sexuality, and self-expression, this is a massive achievement which culminates in a furious, thunderous finale that compels you to listen and learn. This is more than an adaptation of Little Women: it is an eruption.

the wild ones is a wild romp. It is fierce and funny and fresh and angry and timely and timeless. The way Femia plays with time and character is brilliant--I can't say more for fear of spoilers. Just read it!