Sugar
A Work-in-Progress solo performance by
Robbie McCauley
Presented by the Departments of Geography and Theatre
January 13 at 8 PM
January 14 at 8 PM
Roy
Bowen Theatre
Culminating her week-long residency at OSU, award-winning
theater artist Robbie McCauley will present Sugar, a solo work-in-progress
that examines her own struggle and survival with diabetes as connected to
slavery, war, work, romance and food. Written in a circular, historical style,
Sugar is the latest installment in a series of performance theater
works by McCauley that refer to her family’s survival since the 19th
century as part of the African-American working class.
McCauley appeared in the original cast of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered
Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange. In the 1990s, she
received both an OBIE Award (Best Play) and a New York Dance and Performance
(BESSIE) Award for Sally’s Rape, which she wrote, directed
and performed in many locations nationally and internationally.
Special Presentation of Primary Sources
Preceding each performance of Sugar, OSU Assistant Professor of Geography
Marie Cieri will talk about and present excerpts from Primary Sources,
a series of three multi-media theater works in which McCauley dealt with race
and class relations in this country using pivotal events from the 1960s and
1970s in Mississippi, Boston and Los Angeles as her starting points. Cieri
will discuss how these works were formed in collaboration with local residents
and then presented back to the community in ways that spurred dialogue among
people of diverse backgrounds and fostered public re-examination of deeply
embedded social and political attitudes in more considered ways. Before becoming
a geographer, Cieri worked in the arts for many years as a producer, curator,
writer and consultant and from 1991 to 1996 was McCauley’s producer
for Primary Sources.
Co-sponsored by the Multicultural Center and Its Collaborative Partners, Hispanic Student Services and Women Student Services, within the Multicultural Center; The Department of Art Visitors Series with the Living Culture Initiative; The College of the Arts; The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity; and Latino/a Studies.
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