Fires in the Mirror - by Anna Deavere Smith (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Last year's acclaimed off-Broadway play is as much a commentary on current racial tensions as it is a work of drama. Award-winning writer and solo performer Smith derived her scripts from interviews with people who experienced or observed New York's 1991 Crown Heights racial riots. As seen on PBS. Photos.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Derived from interviews with a wide range of people who experienced or observed New York's 1991 Crown Heights racial riots, <i>Fires In The Mirror</i> is as distinguished a work of commentary on black-white tensions as it is a work of drama. In August 1991 simmering tensions in the racially polarized Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood of Crown Heights exploded into riots after a black boy was killed by a car in a rabbi's motorcade and a Jewish student was slain by blacks in retaliation<i>. Fires in the </i>Mirror is dramatist Anna Deavere Smith's stunning exploration of the events and emotions leading up to and following the Crown Heights conflict. Through her portrayals of more than two dozen Crown eights adversaries, victims, and eyewitnesses, using verbatim excerpts from their observations derived from interviews she conducted, Smith provides a brilliant<i>, Rashoman</i>-like documentary portrait of contemporary ethnic turmoil.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Anna Deavere Smith</b> is an actor, a teacher, a playwright, and the creator of an acclaimed series of one-woman plays based on her interviews with diverse voices from communities in crisis. She has won two Obie Awards; two Tony nominations for her play <i>Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992</i>; and a MacArthur Fellowship. Smith was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her play <i>Fires in the Mirror</i>. She has worked in television on <i>The Practice </i>and <i>The West Wing</i>, and has had roles in the films<i> <i>Philadelphia</i></i>, <i> The<i> American President</i></i>, and<i> <i>The Human Stain</i></i>. Smith is the founder and director of the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue and is a professor at New York University, with an appointment in the Tisch School of the Arts and an affiliation with the School of Law.
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