Season Announcement

Acclaimed Dallas youth theater troupe devises rest of 2020-21 season

Cry Havoc Theater Company presents Endlings

Endlings has been extended through November 15.

Photo by Karen Almond

Cry Havoc Theater Company, the award-winning youth troupe based in Dallas, has started its new season off with a bang.

The 2020-21 season technically started on October 19 with the premiere of Endlings, an audio play based on first-person interviews about a changing climate, our relationship to nature, and the collective grief we currently experience. But thanks to a TACA New Works grant, the show is now extending through November 15.

New details have also emerged about the rest of the season (which, understandably, has been fluid due to COVID-19). Two new works now round out the season, the company's seventh.

Once Upon a Moon is a devised piece directed by founder and artistic director Mara Richards Bim and based on some of the darker and lesser-known fairy tales by the Grimm brothers and others. It will be presented at the Pavilion at Dallas Heritage Village, January 7-17, 2021.

The show is planned to be performed before a small, live audience with a virtual streaming component for those who wish to enjoy the performance from home. Tickets will go on sale December 1, 2020.

The company closes out its season with a new work titled The Mad Women of the Asylum. Developed from the collected writings of women institutionalized in the mid-to-late 1800s, as well as gothic literature of the period, the piece will explore the intersection of Victorian-era middle-class restrictions on women, gothic fiction, and madness.

The site-specific piece, again directed by Bim, will be presented July 15-August 1, 2021, at a location to be announced.

This production is also planned to be performed before a small, live audience with a virtual streaming component. Tickets for this production will go on sale in the spring of 2021.

"While the themes and source material for this season were selected almost a year ago, they seem particularly resonant today," says Bim. "Our seventh season explores gothic motifs of omens, madness, and the supernatural and how those intersect with gender roles. I'm especially excited to see how the young people of Cry Havoc will bring these elements to life."

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit Cry Havoc's website.

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Museum News

National Medal of Honor Museum offers preview at downtown Dallas event

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The AT&T Discovery District hosted a mobile museum pop-up.

A high-profile museum opening in 2025 offered a preview in downtown Dallas: It's The National Medal of Honor Museum, slated to open in Arlington, at Nolan Ryan Expressway and AT&T Way in the Stadium district in spring 2025.

To give folks a preview of coming attractions, the institution dispatched a mobile museum to make a visit to the AT&T Discovery District on November 20, during lunchtime when foot traffic is brisk.

Imagine the sense of wonder and amazement that downtown Dallas denizens must have felt upon the sight of a double decker bus, parked in the District, equipped with video and historical information about the Medal of Honor award, stories of the recipients, and a rendering of how the museum in Arlington will look.

The National Medal of Honor MuseumCourtesy rendering

The goal of The National Medal of Honor Museum is to inspire Americans by honoring and preserving the history of the highest military decoration awarded for valor in combat.

They hope it will serve as a national landmark, illustrating the historical thread of sacrifice and patriotism that runs through all U.S. military service members, past and present.

Beyond its state-of-the-art, interactive experiences, a critical part of the Museum’s mission will be to use the stories of Medal of Honor recipients to inspire their fellow Americans.

It will incorporate the AT&T Virtual Recipient Theater, an augmented reality experience where visitors can interact with with Medal of Honor recipients. The space will be equipped with cutting-edge conversational AI technology complete with voice recognition to allow museum goers to have a conversation in a 3D format with medal of honor recipients living and past.

It will also have AT&T Branded Wi-Fi throughput the museum.

Interior of the mobile Medal of Honor Museum.AT&T