Robbie McCauley

The Struggle Continues: Robbie McCauley (eBook, ePUB)

Scripts, Essays, & Reflections
Redaktion: Solomon, Alisa; Carr, Cynthia; Diamond, Elin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As a playwright, director, and performer, Robbie McCauley has been an influential presence in the American avant-garde theatre for many decades. In her work, she consistently confronts uncomfortable truths about race and racism in America with a sharp eye for nuance and complexity, using the personal to extend into the universal by weaving her own family history into her narratives. By breaking down the traditional walls between performer and spectator, her plays encourage challenging and necessary dialogue about the ways race affects our social frameworks and individual lived experiences. In addition to containing the full text of McCauley's plays Sally's Rape, Indian Blood, Sugar, and Jazz 'n Class, this volume includes insightful introductions to each play as well as additional essays by McCauley and other leading writers and academics about her work and legacy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Theatre Communications Group
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781559369367
• Artikelnr.: 59533694

Autorenporträt

Robbie McCauley was a playwright, director, and performer who was an active presence in the American avant-garde theatre for several decades. One of the early cast members of Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf on Broadway, McCauley went on to write and perform regularly in cities across the country and abroad. Her play Sally's Rape won the 1991 Obie Award for Best New American Play and a Bessie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Performance. Other notable works include Sugar, Indian Blood, Mississippi Freedom, Turf: A Conversational Concert in Black and White, The Other Weapon, and Quabbin Dance.



McCauley is a recipient of the IRNE (Independent Reviewers of New England) Award for Solo Performance, and was selected as a 2012 United States Artists Ford Foundation Fellow. Her work is widely anthologized, including the volumes Extreme Exposure, Moon Marked and Touched by Sun, and Performance and Cultural Politics.



Striving to facilitate dialogues on race between local white and black people, she created the Primary Sources series in Mississippi, Boston, and Los Angeles produced by The Arts Company. In 1998 her Buffalo Project was highlighted as one of The 51 (or So) Greatest Avant-Garde Moments by The Village Voice, a roster including work by artists such as Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso, and John Cage.



Robbie McCauley taught at City College of New York, Hunter College, Mount Holyoke College, Boston College, Emerson College, and New York University Tisch School of the Arts.

Alisa Solomon is a professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where she directs the MA concentration in Arts & Culture. A longtime theater critic, political journalist, and dramaturg (most recently for Anna Deavere Smith's Notes from the Field), she is the author of Re-Dressing the Canon: Essays on Theater and Gender (winner of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism) and of Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof, an editor's choice in the New York Times Book Review and winner of the Jewish Journal Book Prize, the George Freedley Memorial Award (Theatre Library Association), and the Kurt Weill Prize. She is co-editor, with Tony Kushner, of Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Elin Diamond is professor of English and comparative literature at Rutgers University. She is the author of Unmaking Mimesis: Essays on Feminism and Theater (1997) and Pinter's Comic Play (1985); editor of Performance and Cultural Politics (Routledge, 1996); and co-editor of Performance, Feminism, and Affect in Neoliberal Times (Palgrave, 2017) and The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill (2009). Her many essays on drama, performance and feminist theory have appeared in Theatre Journal, PMLA, ELH, Discourse, TDR: The Drama Review, Modern Drama, and in anthologies published in the U.S., Europe, and India. She is currently working on a book on modernism, globalization, and performance. Cynthia Carr is the author of Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz (2012), winner of a Lambda Literary Award and finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize; Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America (2006), and On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century (1993). Carr chronicled the work of contemporary artists as a Village Voice staff writer in the 1980s and 1990s (under the byline C. Carr). Her work has appeared in Bookforum, New York Times, TDR: The Drama Review, and other publications. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. From 201617, she was a Fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at CUNY Graduate Center.