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Black History Month
Performance
Wed., February 27
7 p.m.
Truth: The Testimonial of Sojourner Truth, a one-woman play by Rasheryl McCreary
West Lecture Hall, OC Science Center, 119 Woodland St.
For more information, contact African-American Studies Dept. 440 775 8923
Sponsored by Office of the President & The Hewlett Committee
TRUTH: THE TESTIMONIAL OF SOJOURNER TRUTH TO BE PRESENTED AT OBERLIN FEBRUARY 27
FEBRUARY 14, 2002--The one-woman play Truth: The Testimonial of Sojourner Truth will be performed Wednesday, February 27 at 7 P.M. as part of Oberlin College's Black History Month observance. The event is free and open to the public.
Cleveland actress RaSheryl McCreary will portray Sojourner Truth, the slave, itinerant preacher, abolitionist and suffragette whose pioneering life has been dramatized by noted playwright Eric Coble, a member of the Playwrights' Unit at the Cleveland Play House. Performing with McCreary will be drummer-percussionist Bill Ransom.
McCreary, former director of theater at Laurel School, studied at New York University with actress/writer Anna Deavere Smith and pursued an acting career in Los Angeles. She is the former host of KCTY Update, a southern California news show.
Her credits include the widely-heralded one-woman shows in Cleveland: Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill and Pretty Fire and ensemble productions of Measure for Measure, Antigone, Romeo and Juliet, The Changeling, and The Madwoman of Chaillot. She also has appeared on television's A Different World and in the film Talking Dirty After Dark with Martin Lawrence.
A graduate of Hathaway Brown School, McCreary holds a B.A. degree from Case Western Reserve University.
Media Contact: Betty Gabrielli
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