A theatrical portfolio of three seemingly un related vignettes set in different time periods, with top-drawer leading performances from Deborah Yates and the Tony winners Boyd Gaines and Karen Ziemba, "Contact" uses an ingeniously selected medley of recordings ranging from Bizet to the Beach Boys.

The first five full-length stories in "Searching for Intruders" (each is bracketed by a shorter, related vignette) are so confident and ruefully funny that you'll put your doubts in your hat for a while.

The drama, directed by Byam Stevens, comes across as a series of related vignettes without amassing a unified dramatic thrust that develops insight rather than description.

Set to rolling, twangy country-rock in the mode of Creedence Clearwater Revival, its verses sketch a series of related vignettes, each presented in the clipped, unsentimental tone of a news item.

Consisting of a series of related vignettes, the entire play is framed by the meeting of cab drivers who are planning a labor strike.

Its three related vignettes, all set in Los Angeles during the 1992 riots, evoke personal alienation against a canvas of violent social upheaval.

Jumping wildly from decade to decade in a collage of shrewdly related vignettes, the book is best in its colorful view of the French working class, a world Mr. Petit never rejected, simply because he is interested in all worlds.

In 2000, Drummond released 45, a book consisting of a "series of loosely related vignettes forming the rambling diary of one year."

In Marzieh Meshkini's stunner of a film, "The Day I Became a Woman," the first of three related vignettes focuses on a little girl, Hava (Fatemeh Cheragh Akhtar), the day she turns 9.