This 50-minute monodrama has been presented in Poland, Ukraine, Great Britain, Germany, the USA, and Canada. It tells the story of an unfortunate man who suffers from an over-abundance of ambition—a person who desperately wants to be considered a so-called creator. A constant awareness of his lack of fulfilment has dominated his life, both in his private life and in his career. His private life does not actually exist, it just passes by. At the beginning the Critic cannot define his own identity. He lives in emptiness.

His loneliness is not a choice, but rather a necessity. Continual disagreement on the conventional ways of communicating with the rest of the world isolates him from his environment. He goes to the extremes. He rebels against mediocrity of his surroundings. He accuses everyone of failure to understand his sensibility and his imagined devotion to art. He considers himself to be better than others, born to do something outstanding. He acts this way constantly, no matter what his current occupation is. He was doing it as a playwright, then as an actor, director and finally, after another defeat, he does it as a critic.

The story told by Omar Sangare leads the character through different fields of creation. It shows, that the character does not fit in the world of arts any more than in the “real world.” The characters sufferings and his unreciprocated love of the THEATER are, in Sangare’s presentation, more comic than tragic—even grotesque. In focusing on the Critic’s tragic desire to be somebody else, to get to the top and to be remembered by future generations, Sangare actually puts the accent on something that is inside any of us.

Concerning monodrama, Professor Sangare has said, “There are no monologues. You are involved in dialogue at least with the Universe itself.” 

Professor Sangare received his Ph.D. from the Theater Academy in Warsaw where he studied with the Oscar winning director, Andrzej Wajda. Dr. Sangare holds many film, television, and radio credits. True Theater Critic has already earned him the Best Acting Award at The New York International Fringe Festival, as well as other distinctions in Chicago, Boulder, Santa Barbara, and in Poland. Recently, the New York press acclaimed his lead part in the Arena Players Repertory Theater production of Shakespeare’s Othello. Barbara Delatiner wrote for The New York Times, “Omar Sangare was born to play Othello!” His published literary work includes two books of poetry, Landscape of the Soul and Postscriptum; collections of bestselling short stories titled Tales for Old Horse, Tales for Black Sheep, Tales for a Decent Man; as well as many essays and articles for various magazines and newspapers. In 2003, he released his first solo album, “ON.”

In December 2007 Sangare initiated a festival of one-person theater at Williams, Dialogue One, in which four professional actor-playwrights joined four of his students, who presented Madame Tussaud LIVE, a collection of monodramas about historical characters, Napoleon’s Maréchal Lannes, Marlon Brando, Jack Kerouac, and Meyer Lansky. This year Dialogue One will take place between November 21 and 23 at Williams’ ‘62 Center for the Theatre and Dance.