MURFREESBORO — Actress and playwright Nilaja Sun is bringing her Obie Award-winning
solo show “No Child …” to MTSU’s Student Union Ballroom Thursday, March 26, for
a free public performance.
The teaching artist, a native New Yorker, will begin
her performance at 7 p.m. March 26. You can find a searchable campus map with parking details
at http://tinyurl.com/MTSUParking14-15.
Sun created “No Child …” in 2004 via a commission
from the Epic Theatre Ensemble, where she was the first artistic associate. Her
one-woman play is based on her experiences as a teaching artist in the New York
City school system, and in it she depicts students, educators, parents and
staffers struggling to learn and guide others in a troubled public school system.
You can watch an excerpt from “No Child …” that
includes Sun’s comments on her work at http://youtu.be/vbx5MNj0a-A.
Her multilayered presentation depicts a young
artist’s attempts to teach a class of young high-schoolers about “Our Country’s
Good,” the 1988 Timberlake Wertenbaker play about the real-life 18th century
officer who put on a performance of a 1706 comedy with a group of Australian
convicts. Both “Our Country’s Good” and Sun’s play focus on the ways theater
can lift up unsettled people and communities.
Sun won the 2007 Off-Broadway, or Obie, Theater
Award for her performance in “No Child …” as well as 16 other theater awards
and the Best One-Person Show at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen.
Along with her solo show, Sun’s theater credits
include “Einstein's Gift,” “Pieces of the Throne” and “Time and the Conways.” She
has also been seen on “Louie,” “30 Rock,” “Law and Order: SVU,” as Detective
Gloria Hubbard in the film “The International” and on AMC’s “Rubicon.”
MTSU’s
Virginia Peck Trust Fund, the Department of Speech and Theatre and the Women’s
and Gender Studies Program are presenting Sun’s performance. For more
information, contact Dr. Claudia Barnett at claudia.barnett@mtsu.edu.
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