The show does not answer any questions or purport theories about loss but rather presents a wide variety of human stories and emotions through this specific type of common experience.

Could these holes somehow make a map of absences that would describe the territory that encompasses both ‘all there is’ and ‘all that might have been?’”[1] The Civilians use documentary methods to create theater pieces.

Indeed, Dan Balcazo notes in his Theatermania review of "Gone Missing", "Certain sections appear to be verbatim transcripts of interviews, while others seem more fictionalized, or at the very least exaggerated for comic effect".

[3] Other topics that the overarching subject raises include that of Atlantis, and how it was considered by Plato to be a kind of lost paradise,[4] and Sigmund Freud's theory about subconscious intentional misplacing of objects.

The production received high praise from two American College Theatre Festival responders and highlighted such things as choreography (Skye Edwards) and dialect work.

World Premiere: Damian Baldet, Maria Dizzia, Michael Esper, Trey Lyford, Jennifer R. Morris, Alison Weller Off-Broadway Premiere: Emily Ackerman, Damian Baldet, Jennifer R. Morris, Stephen Plunkett, Robbie Collier Sublett, Colleen Werthmann Hope College: Skye Edwards, Jesse Swatling-Holcomb, Christine Worden, Molly Coyle, Kelsey Cratty, Erik Durham, Aiden deJong, Jenny Tremblay, Bradley Hamilton, Kaija vonWebsky, Katie Colburn, Jackie Richards