TransPoetico Production
LUX:
A SOLO SHOW
Produced in Collaboration between
Manifesto Poetico, OTEART & Artstillery
Created & Performed by Meagan Harris
Directed by Carlos García Estévez
THE STORY
World, meet Sally deLux. She’s come here today to finish an impossible task, and, though her fear threatens to overwhelm her, she’s doing everything she can to cope. Prepare to join Sally on a wild wide through caffeine routines, windowed vistas, complicated elevator rides, terrifying phone calls and one final act that changes everything.
The show is an initiatory journey of Sally immersing herself in her own vulnerability, fragility, suffering and self-liberation, as well as exploring the inner child in all of us.
Interview in dialogue with Meagan Harris and Carlos García Estévez
Recorded by Marisol Villanueva at OTEART - Guadalajara (Mexico) - March 2025
THE JOURNEY
This collaboration with Dallas-native actress Meagan Harris began in May of 2024 when she participated in a Contemporary Commedia dell’Arte workshop at O’TEART in Guadalajara (MX). Inspired by what she discovered could be unlocked, both artistically and personally, she asked to collaborate on a production with Carlos García Estévez, founder of Manifesto Poetico.
This led to a transcontinental journey; first, to the Manifesto Poetico studio in Madrid, Spain, where she immersed herself deeper in the research of MaskPoetica and the aspects of TransPoetico production, improvising and discovering material for the show. Next, she returned to Guadalajara, where she spent several weeks composing the piece with direction from García Estévez.
She premiered the show at O’TEART, to a highly receptive audience. Taking what she learned from that iteration of the show, she returned to Dallas, and performed her U.S. premiere at Artstillery in July of 2025.
THE ARTISTS
Meagan Harris (Performer) - is a native-to-Dallas actor, producer, and director. While this production is her third solo show to star in, this will be the first of her own creation. She is delighted to share the character of Sally deLux with the world, and plans to tour this production in the United States and beyond.
She is proud to have earned two degrees from Southern Methodist University in Acting and Art History. She is also delighted to be represented by the Mary Collins Agency for film and television.
Meagan has recently performed with Echo Theatre (OPEN), Ochre House Theatre (DADDY’S RABBITS, TOWN FOR SALE), Shakespeare Everywhere (THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, LOVE’S LABOURS LOST, TWELFTH NIGHT, TITUS ANDRONICUS), Amphibian Stage (SPACEMAN, SPARKFEST), Fair Assembly (AS YOU LIKE IT), the Undermain (SPACED OUT), Kitchen Dog Theatre (THAT DRIVE THRU MONTERREY), and Auriga Productions (KING LEAR).
Carlos García Estévez (Director) - is an international artist born in Spain. He is the founder and artistic director of the International Laboratory for Theatre Research, Manifesto Poetico. An actor, pedagogue, director, and researcher with over 25 years of experience, his work has toured across Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
Having trained with Jacques Lecoq in Paris, he was an associate artist at the school’s Laboratory for the Study of Movement (LEM) for over a decade, contributing notably with his spatial research The Elastics: An Ecosystem of Structures.
Carlos is an international reference in Contemporary Commedia dell’Arte, Theatre of Gesture, Spatial Dramaturgy, and the creation of new theatrical languages. His solo mask performance Solo dell’Arte has toured internationally for nearly two decades. His stage productions—TransPoetico Productions—merge visual, physical, and symbolic expression, exploring the unconscious and the poetic. Through workshops and performances, he co-creates theatrical languages in dialogue with diverse artistic communities, always seeking new ways of thinking, experiencing, responding, and relating through theatre.
Armando Monsivais ( Music Composer) Armando Monsivais holds a B.M. and M.M. in music performance from Southern Methodist University. His sound designs incorporate original compositions from various styles like Mexican folk, Hip- Hop, Classical, Jazz, and Rock-n-Roll, but always catering to the needs of the show. Armando has sound designed and composed for Luchadora (Cara Mia Theatre), Prime-Time for Murder (Pegasus Theatre), Searching for the Six Flags of Texas (Cara Mia Theatre), Ursula (Cara Mia Theatre), Pizcas (Teatro Dallas), Tlatli-When we Were Earth (Teatro Dallas), and The Siege of Numantia (UNT Theatre Department) among others. Mr. Monsivais has also worked as an actor with Prizm, Bishop Arts Theatre, Cara Mia Theatre, Shakespeare Dallas, Dallas Children’s Theater, and Laboratorio de La Mascara (Mexico City). You can currently catch him in Teatro Dallas’ film production of The Monster in his Labyrinth as Diego Rivera.
In addition, this production would not have been possible without the incredible contributions of Justin Locklear, who designed, and constructed the puppet and box set piece for this production.
Impressions of the show
Links to Reviews
Dallas Morning News
“Harris isn’t interested in spoon-feeding the audience, something she learned from Estévez and Manifesto Poetico’s way of creating theater. That means not only audience participation during Lux but an approach that leaves a lot of room for interpretation and what audience members bring to the show from their own experiences.”
Onstage TX
“Meagan Harris’ eyes are uniquely striking. The deep, expressive pools peering off the poster of Lux: a solo show—the piece Harris conceived and cultivated in Guadalajara and Madrid—emanate an intense pathos, and a dread suffused with wonder.”
Onstage TX
“Lux is fast-paced, though it feels like a thousand things happen. And though its narrative arc feels expertly sculpted, it runs on spontaneity—via Harris’ restless body and endlessly expressive face (her control over which is as masterful as her comic timing), Sally’s tumble from hurdle to hurdle, and the way we can influence the action with a titter or gasp, not to mention actually participating. Everyday stakes balloon into life and death perils, and artful set pieces abound; in my favorite, poured sand floats like mist across the room.”
