Don't Drink the Water: A Comedy in Two Acts

Allen's first play was a big success on Broadway, although he agreed with reviewers that it was a superficial piece that relied on the sheer number of one-liners, the good outweighing the bad. It was a fun night out at a time when "Broadway theatre" was still primarily something New Yorkers went to for entertainment, in an era when the Internet was a fantasy and television was for cheap thrills only.

Adapted into two films, first without much involvement by Allen, and later for television with Allen in the lead and directing, a fairly uninspired effort.

The play still has importance as his first big hit, but it's an example of his innate ability to conjure up funny lines rather than of anything particularly compelling or artistic.

A farce so puerile I can't imagine it playing anywhere but on a low budget TV comedy. I might suppose (if my knowledge of cold war politics was better) it may have presumptions to being a parody of some current political scene, in which case it would only have been taken as an insult by any nation.

An early comic play of Woody Allen's, about the misadventures of a New York family of tourists in a banana republic. Uneven but funny.

No te bebas el agua es la primera obra de teatro de Woody Allen, escrita en 1966. Se llevó a escena al año siguiente en Broadway. Hubo igualmente una película, basada en la obra teatral, que Howard Harris rodó en 1969 sin la participación de Woody Allen ni como guionista, ni como actor. Es una sátira de la intolerancia política en general y de la incomunicación en las familias. Como siempre ocurre en la obra de Allen, no hay buenos y malos, todos están un poco locos y son el absurdo y el caos los que rigen sus vidas.