'Boys from Siam' wins Horn Prize

Connolly honored at Yale Drama Series

By GORDON COX

The winner of the inaugural David C. Horn Prize for Playwriting, a competish from the Yale Drama Series, is little-known Irish scribe John Austin Connolly for his play "The Boys from Siam."

Edward Albee selected the script from more than 500 submissions. Runners up were Colin McKenna's "The Secret Agenda of Trees" and Lazarre Seymour Simckes' "Open Rehearsal."

Submissions are limited to plays that have never been published or produced.

Connolly will receive a cash prize of $10,000, and his play will be published by Yale U. Press and given a reading at Yale Rep.

Plot of "Siam" is loosely based on the lives of original Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker, born in the early 19th century.