Lyric Stage of Boston presents THIRST by Ronán Noone. Directed by Courtney O’Connor. Scenic Design by Janie E. Howland. Lighting Design by Karen Perlow. Costume Design by Mikayla Reid. Sound Design by David Remedios. Lyric Stage of Boston, Clarendon Street, Boston, through March 17, 2024.
By Linda Chin
Unlike Eugene O’Neill’s play Thirst (1914), about three people who are on a raft after a shipwreck – the Titanic – and dying of thirst, the three characters in Ronán Noone’s new play with the same title are inside a well-appointed kitchen in the seaside Connecticut home of the Tyrones (the well-to-do Irish family of O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into the Night) – and have plenty to drink. In Noone’s Thirst, the three featured characters are not the Tyrones themselves but three servants in their employ.
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