Activity: National Festival throughout 2020. Learn more.

Originally devised and presented at Georgetown University in Fall 2008. 

Remounted at Arizona State University, Election day 2016

Sojourn Theatre’s THE RACE was presented across the nation in 2020 as part of a festival of royalty-free performances all leading up to the Presidential Election. Sojourn remounted a one-night performance of THE RACE at Georgetown University on October 20th bringing original cast members together with a cohort of international artists/change-makers, DC residents and ‘experts'. 

Learn more and add your voice to THE RACE 2020 FESTIVAL.

Sojourn Theatre devised this piece over the course of two years between 2006-2008 at the invitation of Georgetown University as a way to use theatre to provide space for civic inquiry and civic dialogue on their campus and in Washington DC. The show (described here in this Washington Post article from 2008) blends performance, call and response, question and answer, a global skype chorus, dance and karaoke into a participatory, highly choreographed and at times improvised exploration of what America wants in a leader.

Watch this glimpse inside ‘The Race’ remounted on Election Day, November 2016 by Arizona State University School of Film, Dance & Theatre.

More on the project: The Race: Collaborative Art-Making Meets Democratic Nation-Making by Shannon Scrofano & Michael Rohd, Originally Published in “Transformations”, Spring/Summer 2009