Adding Up America: Solving the Race Equation at Assembly Roxy, Snug Bar
Dates: 8/5/2026 - 8/30/2026
📍 Theatre: Assembly Roxy, Snug Bar
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Adding Up America: Solving the Race Equation is a 60-minute solo performance created and performed by award-winning singer, songwriter, and playwright Monique DeBose, exploring mixed-race identity in the United States through mathematical equations as metaphor. Inspired by DeBose's own experiences at a personal crossroads — choosing between a future with her Black Ghanaian lover or her White British husband — the show dismantles the racial equations she has been calculating her entire life. Blending humour, storytelling, and original Jazz-inspired music sung live over a recorded underscore, the production encourages audiences to think critically about how race is named, inherited, and lived. Previously winner of the Hollywood Fringe Producer's Encore Award and the Valley Theatre Award for Best Solo Production, this is the show's UK premiere.
Cast and Creative Team for Adding Up America: Solving the Race Equation at Assembly Roxy, Snug Bar
Cast
Monique DeBose
Ensemble
Creative Team
Joly Black
General Manager
Monique DeBose
Musical Director
Monique DeBose
Creator
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ADDING UP AMERICA: SOLVING THE RACE EQUATION to Make Edinburgh Fringe Debut
May 26, 2026 Award-winning singer-songwriter Monique DeBose will perform her jazz-infused solo show ADDING UP AMERICA: SOLVING THE RACE EQUATION at Assembly Roxy in Edinburgh, using mathematical metaphors to examine mixed-race identity in the US.About the Theatre
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