Rehearsal for Truth 2021: Personal Speaker, Connection/less at Bohemian National Hall

Two one-act plays, winners of the Best Mini-Drama Student Contest, capture the devastating effects of our inability to communicate with one another. Playwrights: Abigail Henkin (Personal Speaker), Cole Kordus (Connection/less). Director: Celia Elizabeth Krefter. The story of Abigail Henkins Personal Speaker (2020) follows Leona, a copywriter at a search engine optimization company who is swept up in her coworkers excitement about a new technology that promises users an improvement in their love life and job performance. Yet as the technologys grip on the office tightens, miscommunication reigns, spurring Leona and her coworkers to recover their voices and themselves.In Cole Korduss Connection/less (2020), strangers aboard a halted subway train are obliged to turn off their phones and start communicating with each other. With naturally flowing language and dexterously constructed scenes, the author applies the themes from Vaclav Havels plays to depict the estrangement of people in our current reality.