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twilight: los angeles, 1992by anna deavere smith

Director Caroline ClayScenic Design Andrew CohenLighting Design Alberto SegarraCostume Design Robert CroghanProjection Design Lauren JoySound Design Kristina MoyerChoreographer, Solo & Choral VocalsArrangement and Direction Alvin MayesVoice & Dialect Coach Jenay McNeilDramaturg Khalid Yaya LongStage Manager Brittany TruskeAssistant Directors Moriamo Akibu,

Vaughn MidderAssistant Scenic Design Katie SullivanAssistant Costume Design Kara WaalaAssistant Lighting Design Jane ChanVocal Consultant David G. PowellVoice and Dialect Advisors Mary Coy,

Dr. Esther Lee KimAssistant Stage Managers Kelly Durej, Cindy King

TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES, 1992 is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists play service, inc., new York.

The performance will last approximately two hours with a 15-minute intermission.


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Can’t We All Just Get Along?”Anna Deavere Smith’s Indelible Mark on American TheatrePlaywright and performer Anna Deavere Smith has made an indelible mark onAmerican theatre. As an actress Smith has performed in a number of roles on stage,film and television. Yet, it was Smith’s career as a playwright and theatre artist thatinitially boosted her to national recognition.

After growing up in a racially segregated neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland, Smithattended Pennsylvania’s Beaver College (now Arcadia University). While she had beena shy child, Smith always had a knack for imitation — a skill that served her wellwhen she went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts degree in acting from San Francisco’s American Conservatory eater in 1977. Smith was teaching acting atCarnegie Mellon University when she began to develop a number of pedagogicalapproaches. In an effort to teach her students how to create a repertoire of fullyrealized, fleshed-out characters, she insisted that her students study and document thelanguage of real people, having real conversations. ese early pedagogical and artisticendeavors helped to inspire Smith’s life-long project, On the Road: A Search forAmerican Character, a series of plays that aim to illuminate the everyday struggles ofpeople living in a world full of difference. Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (1994), is amongthe many notable pieces born from this On the Road project.

While some scholars and theatre critics have argued that Smith’s work does not easilyascribe to a particular genre or form of theatre, Smith’s plays are clearly written in thestyle of documentary theatre. Also known as “documentary plays” or “theatre oftestimony,” this mode of theatre-making can be traced to traditions in oral history.According to Gary Fisher Dawson, documentary theatre is “a form of persuasive theatre

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that comes as close as possible to an actual event with the exclusive relianceupon documentation from historically accurate materials.” What makesSmith a major innovator of documentary theatre is that she often cultivatessolo performances based on the interviews she has conducted. As a singleperformer taking on the roles of men, women, African Americans, Latinos,Whites, Jewish-Americans, Koreans, celebrities, politicians and academics,Smith not only performs the interviewees’ words verbatim but she alsomimics their bodily movements. us, Smith creates a world in which race,gender, class and a variety of viewpoints converge.

ough not adhering to Smith’s traditional one-woman show, the University ofMaryland’s production of Twilight seeks to highlight both the differences andcommonalities of those involved in the 1992 Los Angeles riots by having eachcast member play a range of characters. In doing so, this production and itsartisans are invested in challenging audiences to think deeply about our ownidentities and the identities of others, especially in terms of how theseunderstandings may inform social unrest. Honoring Smith’s intention to breakthrough the silence of troubling and controversial topics, Twilight invitesaudiences to engage in a dialogue around race and racism. However, the playoffers no simple solutions. Rather, Twilight: Los Angeles uses its animation ofvarious viewpoints to help us all journey to a shared, common ground.

While the 1992 Rodney King beating and its fallout are powerfully dramatized inTwilight, the devastating impulses behind these circumstances can certainly belinked to our current racial dilemmas. e tragic circumstances surrounding thelives — and deaths — of Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis and Latasha Harlinsremind us of the toxic ideologies and outrageous violence that still impressthemselves upon our social conscience. Despite the passage of 20 years, theracially motivated upheaval of the LA Riots is all-too-familiar territory — a painful reminder of the persistent and pervasive effects of racism. Nevertheless,we also know that progress has been made and it is toward these strides thatSmith works, one step at a time, through one character at a time. Reflecting uponher process, Smith observes: “I am first looking for the humanness inside theproblems, or the crises. e spoken word is evidence of the humanness. Perhapsthe solutions come somewhere further down the road.” e very act of talking andlistening is the first step in understanding, and it is only after we understand oneanother that we can begin to resolve our most injurious ills. Smith’s “search forAmerican character” — powerfully symbolized by Twilight: Los Angeles — is ajourney into insight and empathy, remembrance and recovery.

— Khalid Yaya Long, dramaturg

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twilight: los angeles, 1992cast

Jessye Norman, Barbara, Queen Malkah, Frederico Sandoval Sisi ReidMaria, Chris Oh, Ted Briseno, Anonymous Juror Tiziano D’AffusoJosie Morales, Mrs. Young Soon-Han, Angela King Olivia BrannPaul Parker, Rudy Salas Sr., June Park, Jeffrey Ariel O’NealJay Woong Yahng, Judith Tur, Charles Lloyd Da Eun (Grace) LeeTwilight Bey, Cornel West, Sergeant Charles Duke, Walter Park Lee AdamsOctavio Sandoval, Joe Viola, Maxine Waters Kia BraganzaKeith Watson, Elaine Young, Reginald Denny Hillary TempletonStanley Sheinbaum, Jin Ho Lee, Elaine Brown, horn player Noah IsraelElvira Evers, Shelby Coffey III, Katie Miller Maria Ortiz Daryl Gates, Bill Bradley, Talent Agent, Alice Waters Rachel Barlaam“The Witness” Malcolm Akeem

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Jessye Norman, Keith Watson, Elaine Young, Reginald Denny Diana BostMaria, Bill Bradley, Chris Oh, Ted Briseno Kyle TraversJosie Morales, Mrs. Young Soon-Han, Angela King, Kathryn WinklerFrederico SandovalPaul Parker, Rudy Salas Sr., Anonymous Juror,“The Witness” Avery CollinsJay Woong Yahng, Judith Tur, Charles Lloyd, Alice Waters Nabreyia ScottTwilight Bey, Sergeant Charles Duke, Walter Park,Cornel West Philip KershawOctavio Sandoval, Joe Viola, Maxine Waters, Talent Agent, Summer BrownDaryl GatesStanley Sheinbaum, Jin Ho Lee, Elaine Brown, June GrafElvira Evers, Shelby Coffey III, Katie Miller, Kristen El YaoutiQueen Malkah

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Run Crew Chioma Dunkley, Conner Morrison

Dressers Jennifer Geiger, Adanna Nnawuba

Light Board Operator Phil RamosSound Board Operator Maggie BartolomeoProjections Operator Hannah MarshAssistant Master Electrician Christopher Wong


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Documents

may 3 –10, 2014 kogod theatre - UMD TDPStdps.umd.edu/sites/default/files/program-notes/Twilight...Stanley Sheinbaum, Jin Ho Lee, Elaine Brown, horn player Noah Israel Elvira Evers,