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Fires in the Mirror, part one

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Uploaded by on Jan 17, 2011

This is the first 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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  • Thank you so much for uploading this. I watched it many years ago, as a teenager,on PBS and have wanted to review it as an adult. One of the best programs I have seen.

    

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  • can you upload Twilight by Anna D. Smith?

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