Summer’s almost here, which means festival season is getting underway. This is a great time to catch brand-new OOB plays, and GSAS! got started at Planet Connections Theatre Festivity with the world premiere of Virus Attacks Heart, written by Shannon Murdoch and directed by Brian Gillespie.

In this two-hander, we see the complexities of a one-night-stand between the lonely, word-loving 18-year-old Jamie (Luke Wise) and the lonely, almost-twice-his-age “12-drink” Beatrice (Gina LeMoine), both of whom are “running away from things in their lives, and then they run into each other and, though meeting, have to face those things, whether they though that was going to happen or not.”

Listen in as Brian, Gina, and Luke discuss “drunken fever-dreams,” taking the time to search text through movement, and finding the right interesting, challenging play in a stack of open submissions.

“…it’s theatre, and the audience should be engaging their imaginations…[they have] to lean in, and do a little work of filling in the gaps…”

Pull Together Productions presents

Virus Attacks Heart

written by Shannon Murdoch
directed by Brian Gillespie

part of the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity
Paradise Factory
64 E. 4th Street
Manhattan

Sunday, May 18 at 3:30pm
Monday, May 19 at 6:30pm
Sunday, May 25 at 9:30pm
Wednesday, May 28 at 5pm
Thursday, May 29 at 4pm
Sunday, June 1 at 5:30pm

tickets: $18, available via OvationTix