Twilight Los Angeles 1992 this Thursday and Friday @ 730PM!

[Danielle Bainbridge]

Hey LIFTERS!

Just passing along some information about a show I'm directing this semester. See below for more information. Hope you guys can make it!


Best,

Danielle Bainbridge



Don't miss the Theatre Arts Senior Showcase workshop production of

TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES, 1992

By Anna Deavere Smith
Directed by Danielle Bainbridge
Featuring Elisa Asencio, Marissa Brau, Nora Byrd, Jay Shin, Deanna Supplee

Bruce Montgomery Theatre, Annenberg Center
7:30pm, Thursday and Friday, February 16 + 17

Special Ticket info:
Theatre Arts majors and minors can pick up their comp tickets at Kevin Chun's office in the Theatre Arts suite while supplies last.
Tickets will be available at various times on Locust Walk (no comps are distributed on the walk) and majors, minors and students can purchase
tickets at Kevin Chun's office when he is in his office.
Tickets will also be on sale at 7pm on each night of performance (only while supplies last).
All tickets will be $5, cash only.



Poster design by Jay Shin

A documentary theatre piece that critically evaluates American racial politics in the wake of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Anna Deveare Smith’s Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 presents as many problems as it refuses to offer solutions. Originally researched, written and performed by Deveare Smith as a one woman show, Twilight is a series of candid interviews with LA residents in the aftermath of the events that shook this nation. The trial of the police officers responsible for beating Rodney King, a young African American man, was widely televised. The events surrounding King’s arrest and the subsequent trial sparked national debate about the nature of race, privilege and police brutality in America. Here Deveare Smith seamlessly represents the full spectrum of experiences, interviewing such diverse candidates as famed opera singer Jessye Norman, former Black Panther Party member and activist Elaine Brown, philosopher and critic Cornel West alongside a juror from the court case, the aunt of Rodney King and one of the police officers responsible for the attack on King. This piece is equal parts gripping, horrifying and empathetic as it grapples with an American landscape, irreparably changed by the controversial trial and the reverberations of the aftermath.