LIVE THEATER
FOR THE WORKPLACE
All the world's a stage


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INTRODUCTION

Konnexxus works with professional trainers and established theater organizations to provide comprehensive and effective training programs. Participants in these innovative trainings include students and employees in educational institutions, corporations, governmental agencies and other organizations. Training utilizes live theater, facilitated exercises to accompany the instructor and/or training specialist. In this way, participants learn the complexity of issues both intellectually and emotionally. Plays can be tailor-made to fit almost any environment.

All plays use a diverse cast of characters and focus is on workplace issues while simultaneously exploring the complexities of diversity. These plays entertain with both comedy and drama, and were written specifically for the workplace. Plays currently touring include:

Working Relations


70 min. (2 acts)
3 female 3 male

This piece focuses on sexual and gender harassment and in so doing looks at the gray areas. A wide range of opinions about harassment and working relationships are explored. The play challenges management into determining a plan of action when dealing with harassment in the workplace. The structure of the play is innovative so it can compare the issues in different work settings.

HIV at Work


70 min. (2 acts)
3 female 3 male

This piece looks into fears and behaviors of workers in an ad agency as Harvey, a middle-aged man, learns he is HIV positive, contracts AIDS and with the help of the miracle cocktail, returns to the workplace. His co-workers have mixed feelings about his return. Information on transmission is related, but the play largely focuses on the fear of death, dying, intimacy and how AIDS effects everyone.

Workforce Coming of Age


70 min. (2 acts)
2 female 2 male

As the baby boomers -- a dominant working population -- get older, the workplace gets grayer. This play explores the challenges of a multi-generational workforce dominated by an aging population who may find themselves unable to embrace a progressive future yet also be unable to retire.

Introduction / Working Relations (a play on sexual harassment) / HIV at Work / Workforce Coming of Age

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