Where the Suga Still Sweet at We Will Dream: New Works Festival

Where the Suga Still Sweet 

By Brian Egland

Directed by Lauren Turner Hines

In a small southern town the murder of a young black boy echoes heavily within Runna, a traumatized black male seeking refuge in communicating with his murdered friend through a single, vibrant patch of sugarcane. Though mute to the external world, Runna is able to embrace his superpower of love and mediumship but his type of love isn’t well-received by Aunt Nanny Mae and the brazen pastor Vern-Mayor who work to baptize it out of him. It is only through a passing stranger, Incwadi, that the demons of homophobia and the past are confronted as the vast field of sugarcane dies and their lives are transformed forever.