Join us Sunday, August 10 at 2PM for a one-day-only performance of Milo Wippermann’s Joan of Arkansas
This special table reading brings together a cast of some of Dallas’s most distinctive voices—artists, performers, and local legends like Jim Schutze—for an exploration of prophecy, patriotism, and the price of belief in a country perpetually at war with itself.
Stick around after the reading for what is certain to be a lively discussion.
Joan of Arkansas is an election-season closet drama about climate catastrophe, divine gender expression, the instructions of angels, and heavenly revelation relayed via viral video. Fifteen-year-old Joan has been tasked by God (They/Them) to ensure that Charles VII (R–Arkansas) adopts radical climate policy and wins his bid as the Lord’s candidate to become the president of the United States. Arkansas is flooding, the West is burning, and borders are closed: “Heaven or / internet—it’s / hard to be / good.”