Water by the Spoonful
by Playhouse San Antonio
Apr. 19 (2015)
Poignant and truthful, Water by the Spoonful tells stories of recovery and redemption, and the ever-hopeful search for a safe haven in a world of struggle.
Characters Needed:
- ODESSA ORTIZ (a.k.a. Haikumom): 39, female, Hispanic, founder of www.recovertogether.com, works odd janitorial jobs, lives one notch above squalor.
- ELLIOT ORTIZ: 24, male, Hispanic, an Iraq vet with a slight limp, works at Subway Hoagies, scores an occasional job as a model or actor, Yazmin's cousin, Odessa's birth son.
- YAZMIN ORTIZ: 31, female, Hispanic, adjunct professor of music, Odessa's niece and Elliot's cousin.
- FOUNTAINHEAD: 38, male, real name is John, a computer programmer and entrepreneur, lives on Philadelphia's Mian Line, white
- CHUTES & LADDERS: 56, male, lives in San Diego, has worked a low-level job at the IRS since the Reagan years, African-American, his real name is Clayton "Buddy" Wilkie.
- ORANGUTAN: 31, female, a recent community college graduate, Japanese by birth, her real name is Madeleine Mays and before that Yoshiko Sakai.
- GHOSTl (also plays Professor Aman, an Arabic professor at Swarthmore; also plays a Policeman in Japan): Male
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Wikipedia:
Water by the Spoonful is a play by Quiara Alegría Hudes. It won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Hudes had previously won the 2008 Tony Award for Best Musical for In the Heights. The play was to be published on August 28, 2012 by Theatre Communications Group.
Pulitzer.org describes this play as "...an imaginative play about the search for meaning by a returning Iraq War veteran working in a sandwich shop in his hometown of Philadelphia." The Boston Globe describes it a story of "...an Iraq war veteran struggling to find his place in the world..." David Ng of The Los Angeles Times says the play "follows an Iraq war veteran who is struggling with civilian life. His story runs in parallel with those of four individuals who connect on an online chatroom dedicated to recovering drug addicts." Erik Piepenburg of The New York Times describes the subject of the play as "..a Puerto Rican veteran of the Iraq war who faces personal demons when he returns to the United States".
The play, which was commissioned by Hartford Stage as part of Quiara’s 2008-2009 Aetna New Voices Fellowship, debuted at Hartford Stage in October 2011. In May 2012, it was announced that the play would make its New York debut in December at the Off-Broadway Second Stage Theatre. The play ran from January 8, 2013 until February 10, 2013.
It is the second part of a trilogy that began with "Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue" and concludes with "The Happiest Song Plays Last". The first element of the trilogy 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".
| Times: Sunday April 19, 2015 at 6:30 PM in The Cellar Theater |
| Production/Performance Dates: Cellar Theater July 3 - 26, 2015; Fridays & Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Sundays at 3 p.m. |
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Written by Quiara Alegria Hudes, Directed by Jim Mammarella Auditions: April 19, 2015 6:30 p.m., Cellar Theater, BY APPOINTMENT ONLY Prepared Material Required: 2 - 3 minute monologue from any play; Bring headshot and resume.
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| Location: 800 W. Ashby Pl., San Pedro Park at Ashby, San Antonio, Texas, 78212 |
| Our Website: www.theplayhousesa.org |
| Contact/More Information: The Playhouse San Antonio, 210-733-7258 |
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