←Recommendations of FIONA

FIONA is unlike I have ever read. After the first time through it, I just paced my living room chewing on what I had just taken in. Each time I have encountered FIONA, I discover something new that takes my breath away. FIONA demands your attention and an open mind. It is a mystery we may not solve, but the ending moment will haunt me forever.

The way Fiona has, is, and will forever activate, break, then reactivate my brain is nothing short of outstanding. I bow to Fiona, though I'm only 40% sure that's what Fiona would want. To say, I delighted in and excitedly met Fiona's evocative, surreal questions on the nature of theatre, lies vs. pretend, legacy, and humanity's predilection for storytelling. I actually met someone who met someone who went to the same high school as Fiona. They said they had no comment on this recommendation.

layers on layers on layers on layers on layers- a real treat for directors, performers, and designers alike.

I keep thinking about this play weeks after seeing it. Strange and distancing and explosive and quiet--and that the final scene. That lonely conversation followed by that lonely scream into a dark empty room. I'd love to see this fully unleashed.

FIONA is an incredible play. It just really is. As a lover of theater of the absurd, this play certainly dips toes into the water of "plays about nothing yet everything". Whether you focus on the actual action of the play, or the larger statement that seems to tackle the intensity of the playwrighting process itself, you will constantly find new and fantastic things to latch onto. every time you visit it there is something new to fall in love with. I give it Five Big Booms.

Absorbing, vicious, frighteningly funny play that keeps you firmly seated for a hellish dive through its metatextual layers. The impossible mysteries are wildly compelling, the staging concepts are so brilliant, and I felt truly terrified by it for reasons I find difficult to put into words. It's a condemnation but very far from a sermon. I want to watch it again, so stage it.

An infinitely watchable play. There's always something new to pick up on. It begs discussion, leaning over to the stranger next to you to ask, "Apple Cider Vinegar?" It begs reflection. It makes you believe. You want to. You need to. A wise man told me once, "None of it is real, so the only thing you're investing in is your own insanity." and to that, I can only scream.
The world is ending and all I can do is make art.

FIONA is a play about untangling mysteries that you likely will never find the answer to. FIONA, the play, is a mystery that you likely will never find the answer to. It's a script that plays with genuine exciting themes (memory, art, war, time, community, family) in a way that is closer to genuine Surrealism than anything being written in theater today. It is a cry in the dark and a dare to a willing audience to accept it on its own terms. And we must, for the sake of this art form's future.

A storefront theatre Book of Revelation, beckoning the audience in while deliberately holding them at a distance, a play brimming with righteous fury at itself for being staged in the first place. Endless metatextual layers are peeled back, culminating in a dastardly insistent finale that basically dares the audience not to cry at the overwhelming scent of onion. Peercy has warned this may be his last play, but whether or not it is, it certainly feels like The Last Play. Holy holy holy.

This play was a true mind-bender. Loved peeling back all the layers and trying to figure out what was going on. I really loved this play and what it has to say about the state of art and it's power to distract from the atrocities facing our world. I really hope to see this produced one day.