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Hunger for Love, Laughter, and Life in Lyric Stage’s ‘THIRST’       

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Michael Kaye and Aimee Doherty in ‘Thirst’ at The Lyric. Photos by Mark S. Howard

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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Short Take: “Thirst” a Story of Longing and Belonging

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Michael Kaye, Kate Fitzgerald and Aimee Doherty in ‘Thirst’ at The Lyric. Photos by Mark S. Howard

“Thirst” – Written by Ronan Noone. Directed by Courtney O’Connor. Presented by The Lyric Stage Company of Boston, 140 Clarendon Street, Boston, through March 17.

By Michele Markarian

Set in Connecticut in 1912, “Thirst” cleverly takes place in the kitchen of the Tyrone (of “Long Day’s Journey into Night”) household, where cook Bridget (Aimee Doherty), her niece Cathleen (Kate Fitzgerald) and driver Jack Smythe (Michael Kaye) lie in wait to serve the erratic needs of the Tyrones. Bridget is from Ireland, forced to come to America for a so-called sin that she committed. Cathleen, her niece, is in her care. Cathleen also came over from Ireland on the Titanic, which she somehow managed to survive. Jack is a former alcoholic who credits the snappish Bridget for getting him sober and finding him his position as Mary Tyrone’s driver, despite the fact that Bridget drinks quite heavily herself.  

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