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From concerts by powerhouse women to new works to festivals galore, this month's theatrical offerings are as exciting as all the spring flowers starting
As North Texas theater companies brace for more COVID complications, ‘The Cube’ dares to bring back live audiences
Plus, learn how local theater groups are adjusting their 2021 seasons and where to attend live, outdoor performances this spring.
A curtained-off square serves as projection screen and audience pod in The Cube at the Latino Cultural Center.(Ben Torres / Special Contributor)
The title character in
The Cube, a daring new piece of meta-theater inside the Latino Cultural Center, wonders why human beings need to examine their existence and long for connection to other people, unlike other members of the animal kingdom.
“Did you come to be entertained? Were you expecting music and dance?” the disembodied voice asks. “I hope I have not disappointed.”
Statues were erected to celebrate the accomplishments of 19th-century physician James Marion Sims, the so-called father of modern gynecology. Now there’s a play that gives voice to his victims.
Do No Harm, written by Soul Rep Theatre Co. co-founder Anyika McMillan-Herod, imagines the lives of three patients, Anarcha, Betsey and Lucy, mentioned in passing by Sims in his autobiography. They were among a dozen female slaves who were repeatedly cut into without anesthesia Anarcha some 30 times as he researched his theories and treatments.
The doctor became rich and famous for his advances, including the invention of the speculum medical tool. But little is known about what the women he experimented on thought about their circumstances and how they coped.