Twilight, Los Angeles, 1992 : on the road : a search for American character / Anna Deavere Smith.

Title:

Author:

Smith, Anna Deavere.

ISBN:

9780385473767

0385473761

Edition:

1st Anchor Books ed.

Publication Info:

New York : Anchor Books, 1994.

Description:

xxviii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Contents:

My enemy / Territory. These curious people / When I finally got my vision/nightclothes / They / Broad daylight / Surfer's desert / Lightning but no rain / Bloodstained banner / Here's a nobody. Carmen / Where the water is / Indelible substance / Your heads in shame / Magic / Hammer / War zone. Riot / Messages / Don't shoot / Butta bloom / War zone / Bubble gum machine man / Weird common thread in our lives / Badge of courage / To look like girls from little / National Guard / That's another story / Godzilla / Park family. Kinda lonely / To drive / And in my heart for him / Execution style / Beverly Hills Hotel / I was scared / Unheard ; Washington / Trophies / It's awful hard to break away / Human remains / Twilight. Long day's journey into night / I remember going / Jungian collective unconscious / Application of the laws / Something cooking here / Deadeye / Ask Saddam Hussein / Twilight #1 / Magic #2 / Justice. Screw through your chest / Swallowing the bitterness / Lucia / Limbo/twilight #2

Summary:

Twilight is Anna Deavere Smith's stunning new work of "documentary theater" in which she uses the verbatim words of people who experienced the Los Angeles riots to expose and explore the devastating human impact of that event.

Subject(s):

Race relations -- Drama.

Riots -- Drama.

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From an acclaimed playwright comes "an American masterpiece" ( Newsweek ) about the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

Twilight is a stunning work of "documentary theater" that explores the devastating human impact of the five days of riots following the Rodney King verdict. From nine months of interviews with more than two hundred people, Smith has chosen the voices that best reflect the diversity and tension of a city in turmoil: a disabled Korean man, a white male Hollywood talent agent, a Panamanian immigrant mother, a teenage black gang member, a macho Mexican-American artist, Rodney King's aunt, beaten truck driver Reginald Denny, former Los Angeles police chief Daryl Gates, and other witnesses, participants, and victims.

A work that goes directly to the heart of the issues of race and class, Twilight ruthlessly probes the language and the lives of its subjects, offering stark insight into the complex and pressing social, economic, and political issues that fueled the flames in the wake of the Rodney King verdict and ignited a conversation about policing and race that continues today.

Author Notes

ANNA DEAVERE SMITH is an actor, teacher, playwright, and the creator of an acclaimed series of one-woman plays based on her interviews with diverse voices from communities in crisis. She has won two Obie Awards, two Tony nominations for her play Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, and a MacArthur Fellowship. She was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her play Fires in the Mirror. She has had roles in the films Philadelphia, The American President, The Human Stain, and Rent, and she has worked in television on The Practice, Presideo Med, The West Wing, and Nurse Jackie . The founder and director of the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue, she teaches at New York University.