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Where We Get to Just Be: Houston’s Catastrophic Theatre Presents Queer Playwright Maria Irene Fornes’s ‘Fefu and Her Friends’

A photo of Fefu and Her Friends at Catastrophic Theatre in Houston.

By Addie Tsai The conversation around gender and sexuality has considerably shifted since the 1970s, when queer Cuban playwright Maria Irene Fornes wrote her avant-garde feminist play Fefu and Her Friends, set in 1930s New England. America would see the legalization of marriage equality just three years before Fornes’s passing, and Merriam-Webster would name the gender-neutral pronoun “they” as the word of the year in 2019. The #metoo movement would bring about a national conversation regarding consent, sexual assault, and…

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