Marilyn Torres as Odessa Ortiz aka Haikumom and Rey Lucas as Elliot Ortiz in the California premiere of Quiara Alegría Hudes's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Water by the Spoonful at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.

Marilyn Torres as Odessa Ortiz aka Haikumom and Rey Lucas as Elliot Ortiz in the California premiere of Quiara Alegría Hudes’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Water by the Spoonful at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.

SAN DIEGO–The playwright behind the Tony Award-winning musical, In the Heights, is back with a new play, Water by the Spoonful.

Elliot Ortiz is back in the states after serving in Iraq, reconnecting with family and starting a new life. At the same time, four strangers in an internet chat room seek support to face demons of their own, and soon the real world and the virtual one start to intersect in unexpected ways.

As part of its continuing commitment to serve the community through its art, The Old Globe has partnered with with local organizations Combat Arts and So Say We All. An exhibit of art by returning veterans will be displayed in the Hattox Hall, above the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of the Globe’s Conrad Prebys Theatre Center.

Curated by local artist and Combat Arts founder Elizabeth Washburn, the exhibit will remain on display throughout the run of Water by the Spoonful. Exhibit hours will be one hour prior to performance, as well as full days through April 22.

As part of the exhibit, a video installation from So Say We All showcases selected interviews from its Veteran Writers Program. So Say We All received seed money from Cal Humanities and The Center for the Book, in partnership with Oceanside and Downtown Central Libraries, to institute and facilitate a creative writing program and publication that serves veterans throughout the Southern California region. Its 2014 program, “Homecoming,” focuses on the journey veterans and their families experience during the transition from military to civilian life.

In conjunction with So Say We All Executive Director Justin Hudnall, the Globe will also host an evening of local veterans performing stories they have written about their service on April 21 at 7 p.m. Selected participants from So Say We All’s Veteran Writers Program take the stage to perform stories from the forthcoming 2014 anthology, “Homecoming,” featuring darkly funny and surprising stories from those who served.

 

 

 

 

 

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