Tarell alvin mccraney biography of albert
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I drove 12 hours to see a stage musical about a Civil War veteran. It saved my life
On Oct. 17, , the trajectory of my life shifted forever. I was 19 years old, living in middle-of-nowhere Kansas, pursuing a dead-end degree in Christian ministry, closeted as a transgender person. On that day, I drove 12 hours to Chicago to see my childhood hero, Dani Shay, in a new musical. Shay was bringing to life the story of a Civil War veteran who ultimately saved my life.
In the tapestry of American history, the thread of Albert Cashier merits far more attention than it has received. Cashier, born in Ireland as Jennifer Hodgers in , enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War and navigated the battlefield and societal gender constraints with remarkable fortitude. When Cashier was outed and put on trial, causing an uproar in his Midwestern town, his life and his pension were threatened, prompting his brothers-in-arms to come to his aid and recount the losses, life lessons and acts of hero
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Jared McNeill&#;s role in Marcus; or The Secret of Sweet may not be huge, but his onstage presence is enormous. As Terrell, the obnoxious-but (in McNeill&#;s hands)-loveable dude who follows Osha and Shaunta Iyun around in the first act, McNeill has the audience in stitches, especially with his bit about white chicks in horror films. This is not McNeill&#;s first time charming audiences in a Tarell Alvin McCraney drama. In fact, he has appeared in all three of the Brother/Sister Plays. After playing Oshoosi Size in City Theatre&#;s production of The Brothers Size in Pittsburgh, PA, and Elegba in In the Red and Brown Water at Marin Theatre Company (MTC), McNeill has the unique perspective of having lived and breathed McCraney&#;s entire cycle. Below, he describes that experience for us.
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The Brothers Sizewas my first show coming out of Fordham University, and i
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Angeles Stage
Uh-oh. Thornton Wilder’s relaterad till rymden eller universum comedy “The Skin of Our Teeth” is bracingly relevant yet again.
“We came through the Depression bygd the skin of our teeth; one more tight squeeze and where will we be?” Those lines from the play were first spoken in , as World War II was raging on opposite sides of the globe — a war that would end only after atomic bombs killed at least , people.
But in Wilder’s play, now revived by the classics specialists at A Noise Within in Pasadena, the most immediate threat is that a vägg of ice is moving southward through Canada and New York — in the summer, no less — toward the home of the Antrobus family in fiktiv Excelsior, New Jersey (Excelsior — “ever upward” —is in fact the state motto of New York).
Of course bygd Robert Frost had already noted that the world might end in ice — or it might end in fire. Now, with crystal-clear evidence of climate change causing hotter heat waves, forests in flames, raging floods and rising seas, th