“On Sugarland,” Aleshea Harris’s third full-length play, “is sour with heartache and bristling with unexpected words and sounds,” Hilton Als writes. The show will première at NYTW79 on March 3rd.
to that,” the actress Stephanie Berry told her director, Whitney White, as they stood in a spacious rehearsal room in the East Village in mid-January. They were working out a bit of business that might or might not end up in “On Sugarland,” Aleshea Harris’s third full-length play, which premières at New York Theatre Workshop on March 3rd.
“On Sugarland” sharpens and expands on the overriding theme in Harris’s work: betrayal. In her plays, trust is often tenderly offered, like a flower, but then gets stomped on by the heavy boot of racism, sexism, loss, or patriarchal disregard. Just as Tennessee Williams made “deliberate cruelty” and its effect on difference one of the major concerns of his work, Harris aims to show how love can make you a target, especially when you think you’re safe in your own community.
As the actress pondered her character’s intentions, Harris, who is forty, looked on quietly from a table that had been placed stage left. Petite but strong-limbed, with long dark hair and an open face that doesn’t look for the worst but doesn’t turn away from it, either, Harris studied the scene, and then studied her script, as a dramaturge, some tech people, and other actors worked nearby.
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