Jennifer Weill and Eugene Markoff star in 'Connections. The rewards are few for those who shoulder rehearsals, fittings, construction, and critics.
Community theater is rife with good intentions, but then, so is the road to hell.
The Santa Rosa Players have found a short-cut. The mileage accrued is supposed to be a measure of personal growth. A partial list of the personal hells alluded to and presumably overcome in Connections include rape, attempted suicide, sexual identity crisis, death, adultery, divorce, and fixed incomes. All are subjects ripe for theatrical exploration, but hardly fodder for the cozy, sentimental comedy to which Connections aspires. They conspire to create a piece comprised of loosely connected vignettes concerned with love in its many manifestations.