Review: Pool (No Water) by Ensemble Mercury

by Michael Meigs
Published on April 04, 2017

POOL (NO WATER) is as chilling and intimidating as a straight razor. Diane Irwin's fluid direction sends five theatre artists swirling in shared consciousness like an aerial storm of starlings or underwater plunges of a school of fish.

There's something eerie yet very satisfying about witnessing a tight group of young contemporary artists present a play about a tight group of young contemporary artists who turn on one of their members because she was more successful than they were.   Ensemble Mercury is half a dozen theatre artists from Texas State University now set loose on the outside world and specifically upon Austin.  Five are in the cast; Diane Irwin, their contemporary, directs. …

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