In one of the first few scenes of Lisa D’Amour’s wild new play Frozen Section, a nonbinary grocery clerk named Sage chats about their gender nonconformity with a customer who’s more concerned that she may be overcharged at the register. For a moment as I read the play, I thought: trans rights and inflation, check—two
It is a scenario easily understandable to most Houstonians used to dealing with the sudden calamities of nature. They’re hurrying to get in supplies before a hurricane or ice storm hits and perhaps they’ve tried to stretch time too far. Suddenly the power goes out and for a time, however brief or long, they are