Kate Whoriskey, who has directed several of Nottage's premieres, including Intimate Apparel, sees a commonality throughout, chiefly "articulating the stories of those without a voice".
Some saw a commonality of interest with working men in opposing the influence of the conservatives, whose safe positions in the legislative councils, where a property qualification was needed to cast a vote, meant that they could exercise a powerful and frequent veto.
And Israel, Halevy seemed to be hinting, sees a commonality of interest with supposedly pragmatic Saudi Arabia in this respect.
Research by Northeastern University Professor David DeSteno suggests that, if we see a commonality between ourselves and someone else, we are more likely to act with compassion toward them.
He sees a commonality between sculpture and dance in "the way space is charged and affected in some sense by the work".
While I was working with many different product models and categories, I nonetheless found that by the time I had built 5 or 10 models I was seeing a lot of commonalities.
As we pose this question to the entrepreneurs in our network, we see an interesting commonality: Some of the most successful entrepreneurs – think Richard Branson (Virgin), Anita Roddick (Body Shop) and Ingvar Kamprad (Ikea) – have non-traditional learning experiences.
"I do see a lot of commonality in the ideas expressed by Larry Summers," he said.
And we're going to start by showing how we can make our programs more uniform and see a lot more commonality if we throw out of these programs what you might say is an inordinate concern with worrying about time.
Among the commonalities that Wilander sees: "A very involved mother, and they are both as fit as they can be physically".
MS: Of course they all are different projects, but do you see any commonalities among them?
