Sugar in Our Wounds recenters forgotten stories of Black queer lives
The first in a trilogy, Donja R. Jones's play tugs the heartstrings at First Floor Theater. I try not to show any emotion when I attend plays as a critic and not just an audience member, but I couldn't help but shed some tears during the Chicago premiere of Donja R. Love's Sugar in Our Wounds, a romantic drama about two enslaved Black men who find love and home in each other as the Civil …