Quiara Alegria Hudes - "Water By The Spoonful"

A moment that I find to be an interesting meshing of worlds is in Scene Eight when there is a split scene between Odessa's living room and the chat room. Just before this scene, it is revealed how Odessa is to blame for Elliot's sister's death. When the scene begins, we see Chutes&Ladders and Orangutan interacting in the chat room. Orangutan is trying to get Chutes&Ladders to call his son, but he is unable to muster the nerve to speak when he finally gets an answer and hangs up immediately. After this he quickly logs off and Elliot and Yaz come into the other scene. This scene quickly escalates once Elliot begins interacting with the chat room, and culminates in his own past with drug addiction being revealed to Yaz. Hudes links these worlds together through their relations to each other, particularly all of their relationships with Odessa. Though her daughter's death is on her hands, it is obvious through the relationships that have developed within the chat room that she has reached others whom she feels she could help, though she could not save her own children. When Elliot begins his misguided venture into his mother's chat room he is met with unwavering support of her from Orangutan, who reveals just how much they know about Elliot's mother and Elliot himself. The progression in this scene is done in a way that Elliot's history becomes a shocking revelation against the vicious rhetoric he has been saying about his mother throughout the play.