THE PLAY

Tuesday & Weeks make hats on the Great Barrier Reef, waiting for the world to end.

The fish have died, the coral won’t hold on for long, and it’s been a considerable time since they saw another person. It is very, very hot outside. You must wear a hat.

They pass the time together, making hats. And deciding whether or not to… to… keep making hats.

THE EXPERIENCE

A world premiere by C. Meaker, You Must Wear a Hat is filled with the unspoken. Hope, grief, plans for the future, and memories of the past that must be shared. Tuesday & Weeks try to understand what community means when the world might end tomorrow. Or maybe next week. A climate-change play for two people and a rabbit.

THE PLAYWRIGHT

C. “Meaks” Meaker (they/them) is a playwright, screenwriter, and essayist whose work often explores queerness, monstrosity, and the end of the world.

Meaker’s plays have been performed and developed across the United States, including the Kennedy Center and National New Play Network, Seattle Repertory Theatre, San Francisco Playhouse, Annex Theatre in Seattle, About Face in Chicago, and Macha Monkey in Seattle.

They are a former Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights’ Center, an alumna of Seattle Repertory Theatre’s Writers Group, and former Walter E. Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. They are 2024 Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Fellow for Nonfiction and won the 2023 Porter House Review Editor’s Prize in Nonfiction, selected by Edgar Gomez. They are a graduate from Knox College and received an MFA in Playwriting from the University of Iowa’s Playwrights Workshop.

They currently teach at City College in New York. In their spare time, they obsessively research monster and zombie theory, DM Dungeons and Dragons, and drink a lot of tea while reading cozy mysteries.

VENUE

Bath House Cultural Center 521 E. Lawther Drive Dallas, TX 75218

PERFORMANCE DATES 

Preview is February 26, Opening Night is February 27, and Closing Night is March 14. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 pm and Saturday matinees at 3:00 pm. Brief Talkbacks will follow matinee performances.

CAST 

Tuesday is Cameron Casey (they/them), a non-binary performer and arts fundraiser from Fairview, Texas. Echo audiences last saw Cam as PJ in Echo Reads: The Secret Keepers. Offstage, they create multimedia visual art which has recently been featured at Circle Theatre, Friends on Flora at Atelier, and Proper Gender Please at the 500X gallery. Find @cameronthecasey on Instagram.

Weeks will be played by Dahlia Parks  (she/her) who is excited to make her Echo Theatre debut! Recent credits include William Dunn in "Men on Boats" (Allen Contemporary Theatre) and the Tailor in "The Taming of the Shrew" (Shakespeare Dallas). As a fan of wearing many hats herself, Dahlia acts, writes, composes, sings, and hopes to expand further out into directing! As always, a thank you to her family and friends for support in all facets of life. IG and TT: @dahlia.b.parks.dp

Henri Sudy (they/them) brings The Rabbit to life. Henri (they/them) is a trans, nonbinary artist originally from somewhere in Ohio. They are passionate about new work, centering trans experiences, and are thrilled to be making their Echo debut with this world-premier! Find them on henrisudy.com.

PRODUCTION TEAM

Director: Hadley Shipley (they/them)

Producer: Liz Ware (she/her)

Stage Manager: Ash Peterman (they/them)

Managing & Artistic Director: Kateri Cale (she/her)

Set: Liz Ware and Company

Lights: Caroline Hodge (she/her)

Sound: Petra Milano (she/they)

Costume & Props: Claire Spigel (they/them)

Audio Programmer, Backstage Czar: Oliver Reid (he/him)

Makeup: Ian Aalderink (he/him)

Echo Company Manager: Stephanie Oustalet (she/they)

Echo Associate Producer: Leslie Patrick (she/her)

ECHO ON

Echo On free ticket program is for essential public servants & deserving patrons. Ten tickets to every performance are reserved for First Responders, Active/Retired Military, Nurses & Teachers, plus patrons for whom the price of theater would currently be prohibitive. We welcome you and invite you to the show. The theater requests that tickets be booked in advance through the Box Office.

ABOUT ECHO THEATRE

Echo Theatre is the Southwest’s premier theatrical organization dedicated to championing the diverse voices of women+. Since 1998, Echo has pursued gender parity in the theatrical canon by producing, promoting, and preserving work by women+ playwrights and theater makers. Season 28 is the Season of Strangers; characters learning to trust other humans.

ABOUT WOMEN + | Echo Theatre uses the term “women+” to embrace an expansive and diverse community, including people born female, people who identify as women, and gender diverse individuals.