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Mar 11, 2019 dramatists play service inc, drama pages. Derived from interviews with a wide range of people who experienced or observed new yorks 1991 crown heights racial riots, fires in the mirror is as distinguished a work of commentary on blackwhite tensions as it is a work of drama. Read fires in the mirror by anna deavere smith available from rakuten kobo. Crown heights, brooklyn and other identities 1992 is a one person play by anna deavere smith, an africanamerican playwright, author. Ucsb theater and dance to perform anna deavere smiths play. Her body of work is remarkable not only for its breadth of. Fires in the mirror, by anna deavere smith the pulitzer.
A year later, anna deavere smith, one of americas singular talents of the theater, wrote and starred in a onewoman play, fires in the mirror. Fires in the mirror 39 def is dope, def is live when you say somethins dope 38 anna deavere smith. Smith tries to reveal both black and jewish view of the event and the truth of the crown height incident that happened where a little black boy was killed by a car. Derived from interviews with a wide range of people who experienced or observed new yorks 1991 crown heights racial riots, fires.
Fires in the mirror is a play written and performed by anna deavere smith that concerns the crown heights riots in crown heights, brooklyn, in august of 1991. An evening with anna deavere smith schaefer center for. Mar 4, written by anna deavere and performed by philicia saunders, fires in the mirror explores race, identity in the aftermath of the crown heights. Ithaca college the clark theater a play by anna deavere smith directed by cynthia henderson. Fires in the mirror by anna deavere smith if only a man can speak for a man, a woman for a woman, a black person for all black people, then we, once again, inhabit the spirit of theatre, which lives in the bridge that make unlikely aspects seem connected. During her stint as an associate professor of drama at stanford in the early 1990s, smith published fires in the mirror. This is the first part of anna deavere smith s play, fires in the mirror. Fires in the mirror by anna deavere smith books on. Crown heights, brooklyn and other identities is a oneperson play by anna deavere smith, an africanamerican playwright, author, actress, and professor. This play is one of the first in a genre known as verbatim theatre, as the speech in the play was taken, verbatim, from interviews concerning a specific incident or subject. Scenic design by anna grigo costume design by elysse helms lighting design by andrew hostler. Derived from interviews with a wide range of people who experienced or observed new yorks 1991 crown heights racial rio. It is a series of monologues excerpted from interviews.
A recipient of the national humanities medal from more about anna deavere smith. Lewis center for the arts program in theater presents a 2010 senior thesis workshop production. Performer anna deavere smith then used her own script and performed all 26 characters. Fires in the mirror by anna deavere smith directed by katrinah carol lewis, performed by jamar jones fri march 26sun april 25, 2021 the full title of anna deavere smith s play is fires in the. Fires in the mirror project gutenberg selfpublishing. Fires in the mirror kindle edition by smith, anna deavere, west, cornel. Anna deavere smiths fires in the mirror revival casts. She recreated the voices, mannerisms, and physicality of everyone from a lubavitcher preschool teacher to poet and playwright ntozake shange to. Anna deavere smith writing styles in fires in the mirror anna deavere smith this study guide consists of approximately 20 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of fires in the mirror.
Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Anna deavere smith is an actress, teacher, playwright, and the creator of the acclaimed on the road series of onewoman plays, which are based on her interviews with diverse voices from communities in crisis. Birthed from a series of interviews with over fifty members of the jewish and black communities, the drama desk awardwinning work translated their voices verbatim, and in the process revolutionized the. The overall arc of the play flows from broad personal identity issues, to physical identity, to issues of race and ethnicity, and finally ending in issues relating to the crown heights riot. Anna deavere smith writing styles in fires in the mirror. From the director bobby bermea when anna deavere smith first created fires in the mirror she was trying to reveal some facet of the american.
Profile theatre presents fires in the mirror anna deavere. Fires in the mirror is composed of monologues taken directly by smith from transcripts of the interviews she conducted with. Providing an analysis of the television production of smith s play, reinelt discusses smith s performance and dramaturgical technique as well as the plays commentary on race relations. Fires in the mirror by anna deavere smith directed by katrinah carol lewis performed by jamar jones fri march 26sun april 25, 2021 the full title of anna deavere smith s play is fires in the mirror. Birthed from a series of interviews with over fifty members of the jewish and black communities, the drama desk awardwinning work translated their voices verbatim, and in the process revolutionized the genre of documentary theatre.
Fires in the mirror by anna deavere smith uses monologues to retell the crown height riots. Anna deavere smith has held academic positions in the drama departments of the university of southern california, new york university, carnegiemellon, yale and stanford. Anna deavere smith interviews various people who are directly and indirectly involved in the crown height neighborhood. Modern drama, volume 39, number 4, winter 1996, pp. A stirring revival of anna deavere smith s solo show about a 1991 race riot michael benjamin washington takes on nearly 30 characters in smith s.
The tea is served on a tray, the cups and teapot are delicate porcelain. Mar 4, written by anna deavere and performed by philicia saunders, fires in the mirror explores race, identity in. Fires in the mirror kindle edition by smith, anna deavere. It explores the crown heights riot and its aftermath through the viewpoints of africanamerican and jewish people, mostly based in new york city, who were connected directly and indirectly to the riot. Crown heights, brooklyn, and other identities anna deavere smith snippet view 1993. This play made me fall in love with anna deavere smith. In that racially divided neighborhood, a car driven by a jewish man veered onto a sidewalk and. In august 1991 simmering tensions in the racially polarized brooklyn, new york, neighborhood of crown heights exploded into riots. Fires in the mirror by anna deavere smith at signature.
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