Fires in the Mirror, part three

This is the third 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.

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I am in awe of this amazing interpreter of individuals

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Theatre homework gang

[@5thChakraProf]

Okay everyone - this is called "ethnography" or oral history. It is not 'over acting', it is not 'verbatim theater', it is not 'highly unusual'. I'm concerned for all of your education and that of your professors. ~ a Communication Studies Professor from Rogue Community College

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thanks for posting this

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Lmao who’s here bc of THTR1 @UCSB

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11:34 how she eatin that burger tho😂

[@Undisputed1987]

She did really well.

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This is how i learned about the watts riots...b4 this in my little world i didnt know racisim existed in such extremes #highschool
Thanks ms.Rodrigez
#awakening

[@TheCateliper]

"Smith's dramatic technique is highly usual" ???

[@samcharney06]

This technique is called verbatim theater

[@tatumprenger9763]

OH Gawd, such amazing OVERACTING *eyes rolling*