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Gender
Female
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Dramatic
Time & Place
Crown Heights, Brooklyn following the 1991 Crown Heights Conflict
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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Start: Well, it was um, getting toward the end of Shabbas, like around five in the afternoon, and it was summertime and sunset isn’t until about eight, nine o’clock.

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End: And I just sort of stood there looking kind of dumb and then he went and pushed it, and we laughed that he probably thought: And people say Jewish people are really smart and they don’t know how to turn off their radios.

For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Anna Deavere Smith, Fires in the Mirror, Random House, 1993, pp. 5-8.

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