Overview
Character Name
The Speaker
Gender
Either Gender
Adult
Lead
Non Dancer
Voice
Non-singer
Vocal Range
Time & Place
Los Angeles, following the 1992 riots
Analysis
In the original production, all roles were played by one woman, the playwright Anna Deavere Smith. Subsequent productions have used multiple actors to present the 50 verbatim monologues based on interviews with the people who lived through the L.A. race riots of 1992. The
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