Fires In The Mirror

The accumulation is each individuals life.

Fires in the mirror. The Fires in the Mirror Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis character list theme list historical context author biography and quizzes written by community members like you. In adapting her show for TV Anna Deveare Smith and director George C. 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.

And hopefully they would get some benefit from it too so I went outside and I saw a little boy in the neighborhood who I didnt know and didnt know me not Jewish he was black and he wasnt wearing a yarmulke because you can t so I went up to him and I said to him. FIRES IN THE MIRROR by Anna Deavere Smith directed by Katrinah Carol Lewis performed by Jamar Jones Fri March 26-Sun April 25 2021 The full title of Anna Deavere Smiths play is FIRES IN THE MIRROR. In a sense Fires in the Mirror shows how one story is transformed and extended by the Crown Heights citizens into other stories with each story being somewhat new usually nuanced and uniquely shaped by the circumstances surrounding the story-tellers accumulated life experiences.

Fires in the Mirror is a collection of multiple voices and points of view. The play explores the pain of prejudice in Jewish and Black American cultures in the format of several monologues given from varied perspective of members of the community. ANNA DEAVERE SMITH 1992.

CROWN HEIGHTS BROOKLYN AND OTHER IDENTITIES. Directed by George C. With Anna Deavere Smith.

She recreated the voices mannerisms and physicality of everyone from a Lubavitcher pre-school teacher to poet and playwright Ntozake Shange to Reverend Al Sharpton. Fires in the Mirror Anna Deveare Smith Actor George C. It is a hybrid of theater and journalism.

This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Fires in the Mirror is one gifted artists breathtaking response to a tragedy that tore New York apart in the summer of 1991. The Department of Theater and Dance presents Fires in the Mirror.