Chronic Theatremakers: Confronting Denial with Robbie McCauley

HowlRound: It was actually suggested to me by a colleague knowing that I was interested in what I call “personal bigger stories”—stories that have affected my life, but address a bigger topic. I started out with many more charged ideas—war, racism... I’m always interested in those larger topics, and how they affect my physical story, my personal story. Years ago, a friend who was also a theatre person said to me, “Why don’t you write about diabetes?” And my first response was, “Eh, I don’t wanna do that.”