Last summer, Meagan Harris performed a one-woman show she developed with Carlos García Estévez, founder of Manifesto Poetico, an international theater laboratory based outside Madrid, Spain. Now the Dallas actor is back with a festival of bilingual solo performances that includes new pieces by her and two other local theater artists, Armando Monsivais and Bismark Quintanilla Jr., co-written by Estévez, who also directs the shows.
Presented by the social justice group Artstillery, each piece in Los Tres Cabazones: A Three-Part Festival deals with identity and liberation in different ways, including the harrowing nature of immigration, the role of our ancestors in our sense of belonging and how we define success and happiness.
Harris, Monsivais and Quintanilla collaborated with Estévez in 2024 when they were cast in Cara Mía Theatre’s production of Diosa, a piece devised by the ensemble members and Manifesto Poetico. They traveled to Spain earlier this year to work on the new solo shows with Estévez.
The festival runs Aug. 21-23 and Aug. 28-30 at 723 Open Space, 723 Fort Worth Ave. $17.85. eventbrite.com