McCauley to Perform “SUGAR” in Boston Tomorrow Night

If you have not yet seen Prospectus artist Robbie McCauley’s acclaimed one-person performance work, SUGAR, you have another chance to do so on Friday, July 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the Greene Theater at Boston’s Emerson College. Music by Chauncey Moore will be performed by Robbie’s daughter, Jessie Montgomery, on violin and by Victor Holmes on upright bass. Tickets are $18 and can only be bought at the door the night of the performance.

The Greene Theater is located on the sixth floor of Emerson’s Tufte Performance & Production Center, 10 Boylston Place, Boston. (Boylston Place is a pedestrian walkway located off Boylston Street, halfway between Charles Street and Tremont Street.)

SUGAR is written by McCauley and directed by Maureen Shea, with music composed by Chauncey Moore. Stage design is by Mirta Tocci. McCauley received the IRNE (Independent Reviewers of New England) Award for her performance in SUGAR. OnStage Boston wrote this about the premiere of the work in January 2012:

“From the comfort foods of the South to the free-spirited world of 60s and 70s avant-garde theater in New York, the award-winning McCauley … vividly portrays her extraordinary life’s journey. From downtown to Broadway and beyond, Robbie cracks open silences about the pains and triumphs of living with ‘a little bit of sugar’ — diabetes, a disease that affects many Americans, and many more African-Americans. Against the backdrop of McCauley’s own remarkable life as an internationally acclaimed performance artist, ‘Sugar’ looks at everything there is to see about sugar, from slavery to colonialism to American mythologies to diabetes. Her survival tales have been shaped from her own life, as well as interviews with other diabetics, their families, friends and health care providers both locally and nationally.”

Robbie’s related Prospectus project, More SUGAR, can be accessed here.