Friday, August 25, 2017

Anna Deaveare Smith On Race In American Theatre (And In America)

In this speech, delivered at last year's Theatre Communications Groups national conference, the pioneer of verbatim theatre recounts the time she moderated an onstage debate between August Wilson and Robert Brustein (which organizers had wanted to turn into a verbal boxing match), performs excerpts from her Notes From the Field: Doing Time in Education (about the "school-to-prison pipeline"), and channels Margaret Mead and James Baldwin.



Article source here:Arts Journal

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