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'Her faith is her rock, and she's trying to stand right in the Lord. 'She's a very strong, righteous woman who knows what she shows, or thinks she does,' said Oglesby of her character. But when he comes back 10 years later, eager to see his son, now 18, and to rekindle their flame, Luke arouses Sister Margaret's emotions and her congregation's curiosity. Instead, the writer became fixated, 'desperate' even, according to his notes on the script, to tell this love story about preacher Sister Margaret Anderson.Ī single mother raising a son, Sister Margaret has told people that her husband, Luke, abandoned her. Baldwin's agent and some of his friends expected him to follow his success by going into more lucrative avenues such as magazine writing. Written in 1954, 'Amen Corner' came a year after Baldwin's debut novel, 'Go Tell It on the Mountain,' caused a sensation. Greta's talent is versatile, deep and extraordinarily human.' 'To have her back onstage in a role that involves her singing - it's already starting to raise the hair on the back of my neck. 'Because of the success of 'Caroline, or Change' for us, we feel a very special connection with Greta,' said Guthrie director Joe Dowling. Oglesby's return to the Guthrie mainstage in another music-infused production has already heightened expectations. 'My father pastored storefront churches' in Chicago, Oglesby said. Sister Margaret is a storefront preacher in Harlem who leads her congregation as she finds her way in faith and love. Now, on her return to the same stage - she stars in Lou Bellamy's production of James Baldwin's 'The Amen Corner' - Oglesby plays a woman much closer to her own experience.

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Her powerful, bitter, sometimes aggrieved portrayal won her rave reviews, an Ivey Award and a series of solid parts in shows here and elsewhere around the country.

In 2009, Greta Oglesby hit a career highlight by playing a maid in the musical 'Caroline, or Change' on the Guthrie's big stage.

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