Gray Thomas’s The 5:15 Happy Hour Sobriety Prayer Book at The Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival Stings in All The Right Ways

By Elise C. Barnett-Curran

There’s biting satire and then there’s satire with an open, dripping maw that leers at you across the room and you sort of want it to devour you whole. This kind of satire is open and playful and terrifying because at its basest level it is a mirror and what is it that a mirror does?

Gray Thomas is a poet, and his poetry in this play has a question: what God does one pray to when one is atheist or agnostic in a 12-Step Program? To answer this question, Thomas designates a variety of gods one might recognize as ruling one’s life and decision-making habits. The eleventh step of AA states, “we seek God as we understand him/her/them through prayer and mediation.” And so Thomas prays. And we listen.

There are too many gods Thomas prays to to list, some witty and silly, some heartbreaking, so I will list the ones that stick out to me: The God of Matchsticks. Of Condiments. Of Porcelain. Of Childhood. Of Heat. Of Airplanes.

Thomas’s poetry is fearless, funny, and ferocious. It’s the kind of poetry you wish you could listen to every day but you don’t have the strength to swim in it. I recommend taking part in this special, worthy treat.

Thomas’s solo act plays one more time at The Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival on August 9th at 6:30 p.m. Tips go to National Alliance on Mental Health Utah.

The Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival presents The 5:15 Happy Hour Sobriety Prayer Book

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August 9th, 6:30 p.m.

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