Portraying passion on stage — whether it’s a steamy romance or just hot-and-heavy sex — has been a theatrical staple from the Greeks to the Bard to contemporary work where making love can be oh-so-realistic.
So how do actors — especially those who don’t know each other— make the love connection believable? In other words, how do they have sex with strangerThat’s the question I posed to Chris Ghaffari and Jessica Love, who star in the fittingly named “Sex with Strangers,” Laura Eason’s two-actor play at the Westport Country Playhouse Sept. 26 to Oct. 14.
Greenwich native Ghaffari is no stranger to the Westport theater or to nudity on stage for that matter, having played the frisky bellboy in Joe Orton’s “What the Butler Saw” last year, dashing about for laughs au natural. When he was in his final semester at the Yale School of Drama last year ago, his passion was more noble and discreetly staged, playing Romeo in the Shakespearean tale of star-crossed lovers at Hartford Stage.