Fires in the Mirror, part four

This is the fourth part of Anna Deavere Smith's play, "Fires in the Mirror." Smith's dramatic technique is highly unusual. 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.

[@urmyMUSE117]

Anna Deavere Smith, you are wonderful.

[@troytimmons]

this gets more and more painful the longer i watch. great acting but painful

[@eclyectkjackson8883]

When i see these characters...so sad how hard this hits in 2020

[@longboarder3492]

"MY BRETHEEEE"!!!

[@eclyectkjackson8883]

Scary how this is still true

[@not_nathankim]

SFDS '17! WHERE Y'ALL AT?!
*English HW*

[@dopeterminator9174]

English Homework Squad!!!!

[@not_nathankim]

Dope Terminator, dude, I didn't realize till now that all the characters are acted by one person 😂

[@Grawlix99]

can we please stop overacting this is ridiculous

[@willowen452]

Grawix, you amateur, these are NOT over- acting. Do you have any idea what Ms. Smith is actually doing? Recreating "characters" whom she has met across America. Now, would you not be required to find and interview these people in order to be able to determine that particular critique? Check out Ms. Smith being Lauren Hutton or Lance Armstrong at least before you write such stupidity. Your sentence structure is also dreadful. Go back to school.

[@Grawlix99]

@@willowen452 lmao no thanks, I got my degree so I don't have to watch schlock like this anymore