I call her the Professor of Race. She's, in a sense, teaching the audience about these things. But at the same time, she's poking fun at the whole idea of a lecture, with its academic conventions. The point, as it always is, is to get people to change the way they think about difficult things. There's a kind of silence between the races today, and it reflects an immobility that people have.
People are too afraid of offending.
The ideal audience, she says, would be a racially mixed one. She has taught at City College of New York, Hunter College, Mount Holyoke College and the University of Massachusetts. She has also worked as playwright, director and actor in a long string of New York projects, including both Broadway and off-Broadway productions, since the 1970s. The play was subsequently seen in London, Prague and various cities across the United Sates. McCauley has also appeared in a number of art films.