Matchbook Spark Vol. 5: Next Year in Connecticut! x Song Society tickets

About Matchbook Spark Nights
Each volume of Matchbook Sparks pairs two exciting new works in development, giving audiences the chance to discover bold new voices and experience the creative process in action.

Next Year in Connecticut!
The Stablemans are not like other families. Life is a game of mental illness musical chairs, no one has boundaries, and the status quo is anything but static. Next Year in Connecticut! follows the Stablemans over the course of one dysfunctional, hilarious Passover seder. As the family powers through seder, Olive represses an eating disorder, Sonya challenges her OCD by participating at the communal table, and Clem grieves for her therapy dog, Lionel (who was run over that morning). Normal levels of Stableman dysfunction devolve into chaos when Mom’s suicidal psychotherapy patient, Billy, shows up at the front door. Ultimately, it is Billy who helps everyone appreciate that being part of a collective craziness is better than being crazy alone.

Song Society
A one-person folk-pop musical Book, Music, Lyrics & Performed by Florencia Iriondo After two acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe runs, award-winning writer and performer Florencia Iriondo returns with Song Society, an intimate folk-pop solo musical where stories become songs, songs become memories, and ordinary moments reveal themselves to be anything but ordinary. Funny, heartfelt, and deeply human, Song Society lives somewhere between a concert, a coming-of-age story, and the conversations we have with ourselves long after everyone else has gone home. For those who's wonder how the smallest moments end up shaping an entire life.