December 10, 1999

A White Playwright's 'Spin' on Campus Racial Policies

By KENNETH WARREN

In the play Spinning Into Butter, Sarah Daniels, a white dean of students, declares: "Beloved sucked. Stylistically it's a mess. It's like a sloppy first draft. Third person, first person. Realism, magical realism. What the f---?"

By that point, of course, the audience is deep into difficult waters. Sarah has already observed, "I'm fully aware that black people have agency and are responsible and can help themselves, but I think they don't do it because

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