←Recommendations of Scanning

At the gym, connected to their electronics, two people are at a loss to make connections. I love how the honesty stays hidden at the beginning and slowly comes out because they feel safe. A sweet, thoughtful, poignant take on the romantic comedy - it offers more than attraction - it offers vulnerability, opening yourself up, the risk that is inherent when you take a chance. In an increasingly, supposedly "connected age, the play centers on a true connection. And it is lovely.

How wonderful to read a play about a man and a woman that isn’t about hooking up or finding a mate, but is simply about making a connection. This play is clever and theatrically savvy, but underneath the fun (and funny) use of technology is a very sweet, very human story.

A surprisingly touching, funny, clever short play about communication, isolation, and vulnerability -- and about the unexpected magic that can happen when you meet the "right" person at the "right" time. I love the interplay of the real person with the online persona: the fluid movement between complete, shocking honesty and the calculated responses, the speeches we prepare in our heads that help us cope with the world. I really love this short play.

Brennan’s short play takes the construct of inner monologue to the digital age. It’s simultaneously funny and poignant. We get to see His and Her avatars... what they’re REALLY thinking, post-workout at the gym. Tethered to their loneliness, their devices isolate and prevent real connection in their lives, until the inevitable discovery of their shared frustration and joy. Laced with wonderful flourishes of humor, it reminds us we often feel alone only because we’re choosing to be. Great options for the infusion of tech, or keeping it simple by casting additional actors for the IMs.