The Rep: Three Contemporary American Plays Performed in Rotation

April 11 & 19 (8:00 p.m.), April 20 (2:00 p.m.)

Margo Jones Theatre / SMU Owen Arts Center
References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot by José Rivera
Set in the desert of Barstow, California, References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot
follows Gabriela, the wife of career soldier Benito, as she dives into a surreal fantasy
world during her husband’s prolonged absences and imagines the mating rituals
between a coyote and a cat.
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April 12 & 20 (8:00 p.m.), April 13 (2:00 p.m.)
PASSAGE by Christopher Chen
A fantasia inspired by E.M. Forster’s “A Passage to India,” PASSAGE is set in the fictional
Country X, which is a neocolonial client of Country Y. B, a local doctor, and F, an expat
teacher, begin to forge a friendship that is challenged after a fateful trip to a local
attraction. A meditation on how power imbalances affect personal and interpersonal
dynamics across a spectrum of situations, the play allows a director wide latitude in
casting the roles by race, ethnicity, and gender, with different casting choices
highlighting different societal structures.
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information call 214-768-2787.
April 13 & 18 (8:00 p.m.), April 14 (2:00 p.m.)
The Cake by Bekah Brunstetter
Della makes cakes, not judgment calls – those she leaves to her husband, Tim. But when
the girl she helped raise comes back home to North Carolina to get married, and the
fiancé is actually a fiancée, Della’s life gets turned upside down. She can’t really make a
cake for such a wedding, can she? For the first time in her life, Della has to think for
herself.
To purchase tickets online, please visit https://smu.universitytickets.com. For more
information call 214-768-2787.