Written by Lee Blessing
Directed by Maria Mileaf
Synopsis: Who are we without our memories? A Body of Water is a haunting drama that explores the slippery nature of reality and conviction. Avis and Moss awake one morning in a house set in the forested hills above a picturesque body of water. The weather's great, the view's magnificent. However, neither of them seems to know whose house this is or who they are. Will the stranger at their doorstep be able to help?
NEW YORK TIMES:
"This sputtering drama about a man and a woman who wake up one day with matching cases of amnesia is ultimately so, er, forgettable that its resolution ceases to be a matter of suspense long before it arrives. "
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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS:
"If you like plays neatly wrapped up, this one will be as disorienting as what Avis and Moss are going through. Maybe that's the point. "
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THEATERMANIA:
"It's hard to know what the dramatist was thinking as he began the play in 2003 and forged on through a few previous versions to its current conclusion, and even harder to know what to think as one staggers from the theater, trying to figure out what has just been witnessed. "
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VARIETY:
"It's an interesting departure for Blessing, whose plays frequently sport a rigorous structure and a topical grounding. Unmoored from both, "A Body of Water" sails on a tide of half-truths and maddening reversals, deftly navigating between absolutism on one side and abstraction on the other. And where it ends up, interestingly, is open to interpretation. "
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BACKSTAGE:
"It's all very mysterious, but pretty early in the game, I stopped caring what the truth was. It's obvious it won't be revealed. The play isn't a tense thriller, but it wants to be a rumination on existential misfortune. "
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