Fires in the Mirror, part three

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Uploaded by on Jan 18, 2011

This is the third part of Anna Deavere Smith's play, "Fires in the Mirror." Smith's dramatic technique is highly usual. She interviews hundreds of citizens and community leaders, recording their words and then composing the play as a series of fragments from these interviews. She then memorizes their exact words and intonations and performs all of the roles in a one-woman show. "Fires in the Mirror" chronicles a civic disturbance in the racially divided neighborhood of Crown Heights, Brooklyn NYC, in August 1991.

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  • I am in awe of this amazing interpreter of individuals

  • "Smith's dramatic technique is highly usual" ???

  • thanks for posting this

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