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"To me, that was like, 'Oh my god, we've gotten there. "This is a casual encounter, people looking for their baby daddy online," he says. Through 75 minutes and six actors, Mahoney's play takes a 28-person maximum audience (Spark's space is tiny) through vignettes based on real-life Internet hopes - including a Casual Encounter search for a sperm donor. "People are always falling in love with their barista or the person who ordered a non-fat latte.") (Starbucks, says Mahoney, is an overwhelmingly popular setting for almost romances. The first half of Casual Encounters/Missed Connections focuses on the first section of the site, and its setting is the typical living room, complete with fourth wall, while the Missed Connections section is set inside a coffee shop. I went back through and focused on why this is interesting to me, why this matters." "I'm interested in why we do the things we do. "What it kept coming back to is that, as a writer, I'm a cultural anthropologist," Mahoney says. (Note: This doesn't mean some parts won't still be hilarious.) The bawdy first draft, which even included a School House Rock-style musical number, has since been refined in hopes of exploring the theme with more insight than sexual humor. In developing the posts past what was readily available online, Mahoney imagined what the people who wrote them were like and what issues played a role in their lives. The first draft of Casual Encounters/Missed Connections found him surfing the Internet for the most profound but relatable stories he could find on the two sections of Craigslist, which later provided the fodder for his play.
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There's desperation and there's opportunity and there's hope and there's honestly just a whole lot of weirdness." "It's like ordering Dominos.We're living in this era where we're more isolated than ever before, but thanks to the Internet we have more options than we ever have. "We're living behind our computers, and people are just putting their private information out there and then ordering whatever they want," he says. When he really starts thinking about online dating, the metaphor Mahoney eventually comes up with is that of pizza delivery.
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Mahoney toyed with writing a short story on the subject or maybe a screenplay before finally turning the idea into a series of vignettes for Spark Theater in August 2011, and opens with a full production tomorrow night. It was during this period that he originally came up with the idea for a play based on the website, though it took around a decade to finalize. The site, which combines the two outlets with its Casual Encounters (sex) and Missed Connections (lust) sections, was popular with his friends, whose stories fascinated him with their sheer ridiculousness. Mahoney, who grew up here, moved to Los Angeles for a fifteen-year span that saw the rise of both online dating and Craigslist. "It's better than any romance novel or rom-com, though," he says, "because it's happening in real life." So when he embarked on his most recent artistic venture, Mahoney focused on what he sees as a modern equivalent: Craigslist. He still does, though that back story is now more technologically advanced. "I always wanted to be that person that someone saw on the subway and thought was so awesome they just had to reach out," he says. Both the voyeurism and the romance fascinated him, but in his mind, he was Arquette's character.
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As a kid, playwright Sean Paul Mahoney was "totally obsessed" with the Madonna/Rosanna Arquette movie Desperately Seeking Susan.