Saturday, December 19, 2009

Six Degrees of Separation

I guess I'll get this started. I really like this play. I read it while sitting at Starbucks. There was a guy sitting outside in overalls who really needed a hair cut and a shower and I thought, I could connect the two of us if I could get the right six people. That was a sobering thought.

I like what this play has to say about the effects we have on each other. This troubled, brilliant boy walks into the lives of these people who are otherwise quite numb to the rest of the world and he changes them irrevocably. But what's so moving about it is that we don't know how he's changed things. It's both good and bad and I think that's why it has the impact that it does. We are constantly surrounded by people and somethings I think we forget that. I walk in the city and no one looks at each other. There are all these people out there - go, look at them, talk to them, figure out what they're doing and maybe you want to do that too. People change you.

There. That's what I got from this play. People - the final frontier.

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