Twilight--Los Angeles, 1992 on the road : a search for American character / Anna Deavere Smith.
Smith, Anna Deavere.
1994
PS3569.M465 T95 1994 (Mapit)
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Title
Twilight--Los Angeles, 1992 on the road : a search for American character / Anna Deavere Smith.
Author
Smith, Anna Deavere.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780385473767 (pbk.)
0385473761 (pbk.)
9780385473750
0385473753
Publication Details
New York : Anchor Books, 1994.
Language
English
Description
xxviii, 265 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Call Number
PS3569.M465 T95 1994
Dewey Decimal Classification
812/.54
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.
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.
Combining Smith's introduction exploring Twilight's evolution from the streets to the stage, the complete play script, and photos of the author in character, Twilight is a captivating work of dramatic literature - and a unique first-person portrait of a pivotal moment in current history.
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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.
Combining Smith's introduction exploring Twilight's evolution from the streets to the stage, the complete play script, and photos of the author in character, Twilight is a captivating work of dramatic literature - and a unique first-person portrait of a pivotal moment in current history.
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Acknowledments
Introduction
Production history
Prologue
My enemy Rudy Salas, Sr.
The Territory
These curious people Stanley K. Sheinbaum
When I finally got my vision/nightclothes Michael Zinzun
They Jason Sanford
Broad daylight Anonymous young man
Surfer's desert Mike Davis
Lightning but no rain Theresa Allison
A Bloodstained banner Cornel West
Here's a nobody
Carmen Angela King
Where the water is Sergeant Charles Duke
Indelible substance Josie Morales
Your heads in shame Anonymous man
Magic Gil Garcetti
Hammer Stanley K. Sheinbaum
War zone
Riot Chung Lee
Messages Tom Bradley
Don't shoot Richard Kim
Butta bloom Joe Viola
War zone Judith Tur
Bubble gum machine man Allen Cooper, a.k.a. Big Al
A Weird common thread in our lives Reginald Denny
A Badge of courage Captain lane Heywood
To look like girls from little Elvira Evers
National Guard Julio Menjivar
That's another story Katie Miller
Godzilla Anonymous man #2 (Hollywood agent)
The Park family
Kinda lonely Walter Park
To drive Chris Oh
And In my heart for him Mrs. June Park
Execution style Chris Oh
The Beverly Hills Hotel Elaine Young
I was scared Anonymous young woman
The Unheard Maxine Waters
Washington Maxine Waters
Trophies Paul Parker
It's awful hard to break away Daryl Gates
Human remains Dean Gilmour
Twilight
Long day's journey into night Peter Sellars
I remember going ... Rev. Tom Choi
A Jungian collective unconscious Paula Weinstein
Application of the laws Bill Bradley
Something cooking here Otis Chandler
A Deadeye Owen Smet
Ask Saddam Hussein Elaine Brown
Twilight #1 Homi Bhabha
Magic #2 Betye Saar
Justice
Screw through your chest Harland W. Braun
Swallowing the bitterness Mrs. Young-soon Han
Lucia Gladis SIbrian
Limbo/twilight #2 Twilight Bey
Time line.

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