Diabetic Drama: A Workshop
Date & Time:
02/02/2008 - 19:00
Description:
Are you concerned with the personal issues, as well as larger social
issues, around the growing numbers of people with diabetes?
Prior to her March 1 presentation of excerpts from Sugar, performance
artist and teacher Robbie McCauley will hold workshops open to anyone
directly or indirectly living with diabetes, or who is interested in
diabetes--especially the race and class health care disparities concerning
that condition.
McCauley would like 12 to 15 participants willing to engage with "diabetic dramas". Participants may be asked to come back for one or more subsequent workshops (although participation in the first workshop does not require one to attend subsequent sessions). Each workshop will include story exchanges about all types of diabetes, and dramatic exercises designed to share and obtain information, and to break silences.
Then, on March 1 join us for a performance by Ms. McCauley of excerpts from Sugar, her theater piece that looks at everything there is to see
about sugar, from slavery to colonialism to American mythologies to
diabetes.
Bios:
Robbie McCauley has been an active presence in the American avant-garde
theater for three decades. One of the early cast members of Ntozake
Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow
is enuf. Ms. McCauley went on to write and perform regularly in cities
across the country, striving to facilitate dialogs on race between local
whites and blacks.
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.
A core member of the American Festival Project, she has practiced and
taught theater in several communities throughout the US and abroad. She
is anthologized in several books, including Extreme Exposure; Moon
Marked and Touched by Sun; and Performance and Cultural Politics, edited
respectively by Jo Bonney, Sydne Mahone, and Elin Diamond.
In 1998, her Buffalo Project was highlighted as one of the "the 51 (or
so) Greatest Avant-Garde Moments" by the Village Voice, a roster that
included work by artists such as Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso, and
John Cage. Her recent piece, Sugar, a work in progress, was presented at
Ohio State University in collaboration with several institutional
departments and organizations as well as with members of Columbus' Near
East community.
Robbie McCauley is on the Performing Arts Department faculty at Emerson
College in Boston.
Minimum Fee:
0
Max Registration:
25
Fee:
Admission: Contributions Appreciated
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