Diego Velazquez

10/26/14

Theatre One
Beautiful Thirsty Things Review
This was a very interesting play to say the least. It is important to know that the play was written
in 5 months and this is only the 3rd draft of it. BTT is without a doubt a very poetic play and the dialogue
and set make that very clear. Unfortunately, poetic does not mean quality. The first thing I noticed
about the play was the very wordy and poetic dialogue, which at times was beautiful and really pulled at
the audiences heart strings but more often than not it felt self-serving and pulled me out of the play.
There were some themes that I did love and felt were very powerful, including the blindfolds on the
children representing innocence and the remnants of the blindfold on most of the characters.
Unfortunately for the actors, the script distracted me from most of their performances.
However, there were fantastic moments that shined and managed to truly entertain me. I felt the very
intimate moment between Beni (Nick Magnanti) and Mira (Jessica Lyke) as she made up the story of
her parents meeting while Luz (Mallory Walton) and Cris (Rob Gagnon) reenacted it upstage. That
moment was truly beautiful and in my opinion was the strongest moment in the show.
Though I did not think much of the script in its current form, it was an interesting story and the
very detailed script according to the director (Eric Glauber) allowed for some beautiful props and
scenery, but giving credit where credit is absolutely due, the set designer Kristin Battersby created an
incredible scene and a beautiful world. It created this beautiful world and really immersed you in the
very surreal and poetic world of the play.
The script was flawed but it is still very fresh. I feel that it is a bit early in the scripts life to have
a full staged performance, but I see a lot of potential in it. Making some of the themes more clear and

readable as well as flushing out some of the relationships between characters are things that will make
the play truly shine. A personal preference would be to pick and choose the more poetic moments in the
dialogue to allow for them to shine more and be beautiful rather than having it be a base and possibly
get stale.