Synchronicity

by Brynne Frauenhoffer

On a dangerous rural highway, two teenage girls wreck their cars exactly two years apart. Sarah was driving sober in broad daylight, Mal was driving drunk at 3 a.m.—but it’s only Mal who survives. When Mal encounters Sarah’s ghost at the crash site, she’s forced to consider why she’s still alive and looks for ways to help her new ghost friend. Meanwhile, Mal’s mom, feeling guilty at the injustice of her daughter...

On a dangerous rural highway, two teenage girls wreck their cars exactly two years apart. Sarah was driving sober in broad daylight, Mal was driving drunk at 3 a.m.—but it’s only Mal who survives. When Mal encounters Sarah’s ghost at the crash site, she’s forced to consider why she’s still alive and looks for ways to help her new ghost friend. Meanwhile, Mal’s mom, feeling guilty at the injustice of her daughter’s survival, befriends Sarah’s grieving mother. Through these unusual, fraught friendships, the four women search for purpose behind their unfair fates.

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Synchronicity

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  • Shaun Leisher: Synchronicity by Brynne Frauenhoffer
    “

    This play is basically an attempt to answer the whole meaning of life question but it's done in such an interesting way. It's a play that shows how tragedy can connect and cause bonds to form. Wonderful play with great roles for women of various ages.

    This play is basically an attempt to answer the whole meaning of life question but it's done in such an interesting way. It's a play that shows how tragedy can connect and cause bonds to form. Wonderful play with great roles for women of various ages.

    ”
  • Mark Mason: Synchronicity by Brynne Frauenhoffer
    “

    A beautiful play, evocative, haunting, and powerful. Lovely blend of the ethereal, the real, the tragic and the hopeful, with great challenges for good actors and creative directors. Get it on stage soon!

    A beautiful play, evocative, haunting, and powerful. Lovely blend of the ethereal, the real, the tragic and the hopeful, with great challenges for good actors and creative directors. Get it on stage soon!

    ”
  • Cassie Stokes-Wylie: Synchronicity by Brynne Frauenhoffer
    “

    SYNCHRONICITY is the winner of the 2016 Salt Lake Acting Company/David Ross Fetzer Foundation for Emerging Artists grant. It is a beautiful and haunting story about trying to make sense of life's inexplicable circumstances. Brynne has an insightful understanding of anxiety, grief, and healing that comes through powerfully in this script. Great, meaty roles for young actresses and full of theatrical possibility.

    SYNCHRONICITY is the winner of the 2016 Salt Lake Acting Company/David Ross Fetzer Foundation for Emerging Artists grant. It is a beautiful and haunting story about trying to make sense of life's inexplicable circumstances. Brynne has an insightful understanding of anxiety, grief, and healing that comes through powerfully in this script. Great, meaty roles for young actresses and full of theatrical possibility.

    ”

Development History

  • Reading, The New Colony, 2016
  • Workshop, Salt Lake Acting Company, 2016
  • Workshop, The Writers Room at The New Colony, 2015

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