THEATRE REVIEW: A teaspoon of gravitas, tablespoon of heart is the perfect recipe for this Pulitzer winner.
The thing that immediately grabs your attention during Different Stages' moving production of Quiara Alegría Hudes'– that is, after you rebound from the realization that the play won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama – is its musicality.
Odessa runs an online support group for recovering addicts, where she uses the handle Haikumom and dispenses tough love in 17 syllables to a core of fellow travelers who go by the usernames Orangutan , Chutes&Ladders , and Fountainhead . This is a play about regret, relapse, and restitution. And it is about families – the ones we make and the ones we are born into.
Director Brogan Lozano finds the heart and humor in this story while reverently maintaining the gravitas it requires. And his actors brilliantly capture their characters' respective forms of fragility and prove to be particularly adept at delivering the Pulitzer Prize-worthy poetry found in the script.
While this play needs little embellishment, Gary Thornsberry's fallow, no-frills scenic design in the Vortex's black box theatre space and Amy Lewis' often late-arriving dramatic lighting do little to complement the performances, though the three-tier spacing of the chat room members nicely frames the action.
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