Soul Rep Theatre continues its season with the premiere of Erin Malone Turner’s ‘What Fits Inside a Human Heart’
Dallas-based playwright Erin Malone Hunter’s new play, set in a Black-owned bookstore in Louisiana in the 1990s, is a celebration of “first” queer love, the human spirit, bibliophiles and community.
Soul Rep Theatre opens the premiere of the play on Thursday, Oct. 12. Soul Rep Theatre follows up its riveting season opener — a co-production with Echo Theatre of Tori Sampson’s Cadillac Crew —with the long-awaited world premiere of the newly-commissioned play, What Fits Inside a Human Heart.
Written by prolific up-and-coming playwright Erin Malone Turner of Dallas through a transformative TACA New Works grant and billed as a “first” queer love story, this inspiring work is set in a Black-owned bookstore in 1990s-era Louisiana.
It is a tribute to first loves, to bibliophiles, to the Black community and to the human spirit. The production is co-directed by Dee Hunter-Smith, Soul Rep’s co-associate artistic director of theater, and her wife La-Hunter Smith.
