Water by the Spoonful
Date and Time
Sunday Apr 19, 2020
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM EDT
April 17-25, 2020 Thurs-Sat: 7:30-9:30 pm Sun: 2:30-4:30 pm
Location
Hansen Theatre, Pao Hall W.Wood St. West Lafayette, IN 47907
Fees/Admission
Price: $12.50-$19.50
Contact Information
Purdue Department of Theatre
Jodi Taylor
jzeltner@purdue.edu
765 494 3074
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Description
In a far corner of the internet, moderator “Haikumom” (aka Odessa Ortiz) leads a chat room for recovering drug addicts. From behind their screens, individuals who might never meet in real life—a student, an IRS paper-pusher, and a financier—forge a bond as strong as blood. Offline, in a Puerto Rican neighborhood in North Philly, Ortiz’s real-life family is falling apart. Her nephew has returned from Iraq physically and emotionally broken. Her niece is unable to reconcile her identity as a woman from the North Philly barrio with her upper-crust, intellectual lifestyle. And her sister is dying of cancer. Quiara Alegría Hudes’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play is a powerful, compassionate look at the meaning of family and the burdens we must carry to protect it.
