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Water by the Spoonful
Water by the Spoonful
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Author: Quiara Alegría Hudes Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 62 Pub. Date: 2013 Edition: Acting Edition ISBN-10: 0822227150 ISBN-13: 9780822227151 Cast Size: 3 female, 7 male
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About
the Play:
Water by the Spoonful has become
a favourite of acting teachers for Male Monologues and Three-Person Scenes.
Water by the Spoonful is a full-length drama by Quiara Alegría Hudes. A soldier returns from the war and struggles to
put aside the demons that haunt him. His mother, a recovering addict,
battles her own demons. Water by the Spoonful is a heartfelt
meditation on lives on the brink of redemption.
Water by the Spoonful is
about a young Marine coming to terms with his time in Iraq and his
father's and grandfather's service in Vietnam and Korea. Somewhere
in Philadelphia, Elliot has returned from the Iraq war and is
struggling to find his place in the world. Somewhere in a chat room,
recovering addicts forge an
unbreakable bond keeping each other alive, hour by hour, day
by day. The boundaries of family and community are stretched across
continents and cyberspace as birth families splinter and online
families collide in this second
instalment of Quiara Alegria Hudes'
acclaimed trilogy that began with A Soldier's Fugue.
Water by the Spoonful premiered in 2011 at Hartford Stage
Company and won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play has become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and workshops and is
regularly performed in regional, high school, college, and
community theatre productions.
Cast: 3 female, 7 male
What people say:
"A complete and satisfying
work … A quartet of wounded yet fiercely bright characters who are
trying to stay sober communicate over the internet. Those who feel
the web is a cold connection may change their opinion after they see
the very hot limbo in which these characters live and interact …
This is a very funny, warm, and, yes, uplifting play with characters
that are vivid, vital, and who stay with you long after the play is
over." — The Hartford Courant
"Quiara Alegria Hudes
is a blazing talent … Her new play, Water by the
Spoonful, blazes with promise. Non-linear and fascinating,
it is not easily followed but definitely worthy of both close
attention and ultimate praise…Provocative and brimming with life."
— Talkin' Broadway
"All the characters in Quiara
Alegria Hudes' compassionate follow-up to Elliot, A
Soldier's Fugue (a Pulitzer finalist) are seeking a kind of visa –
one that will allow them to make it to a safe haven in a messed-up
world. Everyone in the play is living day to day – or spoonful by
spoonful, to echo Hudes' poignant metaphor – enabled, hindered, and
supported by an ever-interrelated reach of family and friends. The
play is a combination poem, prayer and app on how to cope in an age
of uncertainty, speed and chaos. When cyber meets the real world,
anger gives way to forgiveness and resistance becomes redemption; the
heart of the play opens up and the waters flow freely." —
Variety
About the Playwright:
Quiara
Alegría Hudes is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American
playwright and author. After graduating from public school in
Philadelphia, she went on to receive a B.A. in music cum laude from
Yale University before earning an M.F.A. in playwriting from Brown
University, where she studied with Paula Vogel, and her work often
merges the two disciplines.
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