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‘Disaster' recounts fictional 1900 Storm story
By DiverseWorks
Correspondent
Published October 2, 2009
HOUSTON — Ain Gordon’s “A Disaster Begins” will premiere at 8 p.m. today and Saturday at DiverseWorks ArtSpace, 1117 E. Freeway, in Houston.
The work is a fictional account of Muriel Halstead and her unbreakable bond with The Great Storm, which devestated Galveston in 1900, killing 6,000 people.
She appears with little more than a glass and pitcher of water to tell her tale of the storm and unravels with it the shocking truth behind her experiences of presidential corruption, pubescent despair, patriotic fervor, premarital passion, and otherwise unfortunate fits of writer’s block.
“DiverseWorks committed to presenting this show in February of 2008, thinking that this show had a great potential to resonate with our audiences,” co-executive director Sixto Wagan said.
“Little did we know then how personal the resonance would become. The play isn’t just about the loss and devastation one feels after a hurricane but also about the great change that was happening in the turn of the century — change that seems awfully similar to this moment in American history.”
For ticket information, call 713-223-8346 or visit www.diverseworks.org.
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