The Premiere of

Eye of Storm: Tales from Hurricane Ike​

by Fernando Dovalina

Directed by Steve Carpentier

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On the fifth anniversary of Hurrican Ike's landfall along the Texas Gulf Coast, nine short comedic and drmaati plays and monologues recall that a natural disaster can bend - but not break - the human spirit.

 

In "Into the Eye of a Storm," six powerful hurricanes argue among themselves as they try to determine which one was most powerful in U.S. presidential politics.  A beautiful dog named Maggie tells her tale of survival.  A bitter woman tries to abscond with the last surviving bag of ice left in Houston.  A Galveston bartender tries to keep peace among battling customers.  A teen-aged slacker recalls a hurrican party that went bad.  The wife of a cross-dressing man worries that the storm may kill them and that her husband's secret may not be secret for long.  A Houston Chronicle reporter discovers that there's more to people - and trees - than first meets the eye.  The owners of a Mexican restaurant destroyed by Ike learn that their precious collateral is not recognized by banks.

 

Starring: Jada August, Danielle Bunch, Dolly Cruise, Danyell Davis, Barbara Dell, Jennifer Drummond, Elyse Freeman, Roy Hamlin, Brandon Hobratschk, Robert L. Jacobs Jr., Rebecca Johnson-Edgerly, Omar Lewis, Joseph Lockett, J.R. Marshall, Brandon Morgan, Justin Mouton, Joyce Murray, Megan Nix, C.J. Stafford and Autumn Woods.

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