Review: Soul Rep brings queer love alive in charming ‘What Fits Inside a Human Heart’
Arianna Reed, left, and Kat Lozano in Soul Rep’s ‘What Fits Inside a Human Heart.’ (Courtesy photo) With one weekend left, do not sleep on Soul Rep Theatre’s current production.
In the delightful dramedy What Fits Inside a Human Heart, local playwright Erin Malone Turner delivered a straightforward queer love story that reminds of the joy of discovering romance amid the support of a chosen family.
The show opened Thursday inside the Theatre Too space at Theatre Three. Turner’s play had a smart simplicity to it with complex characters all exploring life’s options in the nexus of the Rain or Shine bookstore in New Orleans in 1999.
Charm (Arianna Reed) and Ellison (Edmund Simpson II) are employees who are as familiar as siblings with each other. The shop is owned by longtime New Orleans native Jac (Shaundra Gabriel) or Mama as her team calls her.
