Undiscovered Works is thrilled to partner with Clark University's theatre department for this month's storytelling event - a virtual reading of student writer Brett Iarrobino's play "Poor Connection," featuring the original production cast. The UW/Clark collaboration formed to present selections from one of the University's biennial New Play Festival scripts at UW's monthly storytelling series at the Dixon Place lounge. Since we remain in a virtual world, we're taking advantage of broader time constraints and bringing you the full play!

"Poor Connection" is a two-act comedy-drama concerned with love, companionship, and our fear of loneliness amid a world that boasts connectivity.

Alicia is a rancorous psychiatrist, afflicted with a self-proclaimed crippling allergy to electricity. Jimmy, her new patient, is a reclusive man-child gifted with savant-like memory; insecure about his brainpower, he has declared himself a technologically-perfect supercomputer. Cornered by mounting pressure from family and loved ones to find pathways back into the outside world, their paths inevitably converge in unexpected, quixotic ways.

"Poor Connection" received its first staging at Clark University's 6th Biennial New Play Festival in Worcester, Massachusetts, directed by Lyndsey Hawkes.

The play will be read by Claire Cohen, Esther de Araujo, Jimmy Jackson, Maddie Thomas, Aanandita Bali, Dylan Parra, and Bella Conary.

Please note that your donations are shared with our presenting artists and this month's non-profit partner, Crossroads Community Services.

Featured photos: above - original production photo by Jayameena Sundar Rajan; below - playwright Brett Iarrobino