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Connect Five – Four Plays With One Thing In Common

by Karen Tortora-Lee on January 12, 2011

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Connect Five photo by Suzi Sadler

Connect Five photo by Suzi Sadler

We all want to feel deeply connected to someone else in a new way that surprises us.  How that connection comes about  - emotionally, physically, mentally or sexually – is actually secondary.  When that unexpected connection locks in there’s a heightened state of awareness that can overpower our conventional systems and methods, an allure that can captivate our essential nature on a level that we can’t always put into words – quite possibly because some times there are no words.  Some times there just is what we do, how it makes us feel, and that chance we’re willing to take to feel it again.

The four plays of Connect Five all deal with a connection that’s either surprising, suspicious, inescapable or indescribable, and the gratification (as well as the guilt), that can come about because of it.

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Interview With The Four Writers Of Connect Five

by Karen Tortora-Lee on January 6, 2011

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Four writers plus one audience equals Connect Five – The Common Tongue’s evening of one-act plays which will be going on from January 5 – 16 at The Ars Nova Building.  The night brings together two emerging playwrights – Danny Mitarotondo (recipient of the Edward F. Albee Writing Fellowship) and Bronwen Prosser (Vital Theatre’s The Picasso Project) – with two established playwrights – Wendy MacLeod (Schoolgirl Figure; The House of Yes) and Lucy Thurber (Scarcity; Bottom of the World).

All four writers were kind enough to take a moment out of their busy schedules to do a short Q&A with me before I go to review the show.

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