Another Shot Off-Broadway Reviews

The episodic play mostly follows a direct path as Harry and a small group of substance abusers experience their rocky eight-week journey towards sobriety. Harry addresses the audience directly at times to annotate the characters and their actions. Every so often between scenes, voiceover segments by recovered alcoholics share their stories, some humorous, others not.

As Another Shot tipples forward about the dangers and disasters of disproportionate tippling, many of its lines hang heavily in the air. There’s discussion about when and under what circumstances a first drink was taken. So much so that eventually Barb warns, “Forget the first drink, remember the last,” suggesting that a first drink may have been imbibed in pleasure, but a last drink was a bottoming episode. A wiser remark isn’t uttered during the 90 enlightening, threatening minutes.