SUGA

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UGA is conceived, created, and performed by Travis Coe and directed by Stacy Klein. Travis began working on SUGA in 2016 as he explored the Afro-Caribbean/Latinx history of his family, and their native lands spanning Belize, Nicaragua, and Puerto Rico. Klein, DE’s Founder and Artistic Director, watched some of Travis’ early creative process and began working in dialogue. It is an investigation of freedom, and the bounds—personal, artistic, societal, and political—one must break through to achieve that end. As a caretaker of a museum of memory, Coe touches/reveals/remixes all the aspects of himself—as Queer, Black, Latinx, and American, to find the path to sing, fly, run – toward Freedom.

Selected Articles:

Broadway World
SUGA Comes to Double Edge Theatre in April
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The Fabulous 413
Redefined – Radio

The Austin Chronicle
Review: SUGA: Travis Coe performs his personal solo work with rigorous grace by Yasmin Zacaria Mikhiael
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The River
Podcast: by Monte Belmonte
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The Ashfield News
SUGA: A Review and a View into the Soul of Travis Coe by Nan Parati
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The Theatre Times
Ritualizing Identitites: “SUGA” by Travis Coe at Double Edge Theatre Company in Ashfield, Massachusetts by James Montaño

Recent Showings

April 2024
at Double Edge’s Farm Center
March 2020
at CRASHBOX by Rude Mechs (Austin, TX)
November 2019 (Premiere)
at Double Edge’s Farm Center
March 2019 (Preview)
at Double Edge’s Farm Center

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