Catherine DuBord. Photo by Jordan Fraker.
An East Dallas actor is performing a one-woman play based on Zelda Fitzgerald at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Leading up to the August festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, actor Catherine DuBord is performing The Last Flapper in Dallas in June.
DuBord has adapted the play from the original by William Luce, and it portrays Zelda, the wife of The Great Gatsby author F. Scott Fitzgerald, in a mental institution on the day of her death in 1948. The play’s content comes from Zelda’s letters, diaries and writings.
“Beyond just empowering a strong woman, largely marginalized in the history books, to tell her story, The Last Flapper is relevant to the current moment because we are still wrestling with questions about a woman’s right to choose her own path, to say ‘no’ to those in power and to make choices regarding her own medical health,” DuBord said in a statement.
The only producer and actor for the performance, DuBord is a graduate of Southern Methodist University’s Meadows School of the Arts and has been acting in DFW for the past 15 years. She founded her own production company, Belle Sauvage.
The Fringe, which lasts Aug. 4-28, welcomes artists and performers to hundreds of stages across Edinburgh.
See the play at Dallas’ Theatre Three; tickets to the performances, scheduled June 1-11, are available here.
