Twilight, Los Angeles, 1992, on the road : a search for American character

Twilight, Los Angeles, 1992, on the road A search for American character

Anna Deavere Smith

Book - 1994

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.

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Subjects
Race relations > Drama.
Riots > Drama.
Monologues.
One-person shows (Performing arts)
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Drama.
Published
New York : Anchor Books 1994.
Language
English
Main Author
Anna Deavere Smith (-)
Edition
First Anchor Books edition
Physical Description
xxviii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN
9780385473767
  • 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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