Fires in the Mirror

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Description: August 1991. Crown Heights, Brooklyn. A Hasidic man's car jumps a curb and kills a seven-year-old black child. Hours later, a Hasidic student is stabbed to death in what appeared to be a retaliatory act. A city riots, exploding in racial tension.

Writer and Actor Anna Deavere Smith ("The West Wing") gives stunning performances as she sets course on an emotional re-telling of this tragedy. She searches for the elusive truth among the adversaries, victims and eyewitnesses in this moving collage based upon verbatim excerpts from interviews conducted by Ms. Smith. Directed by the acclaimed and Tony Nominated Broadway director of "Jelly's Last Jam" and "Angels in America", George C. Wolfe, Ms. Smith acts the role of each interviewee.

Special Info: American Playhouse on Video Collection, Seen on PBS (This information courtesy of the publisher)

"This video is a perfect vehicle for those seeking to discuss the role of race and culture in today's society." - School Library Journal

"'Fires in the Mirror is, quite simply, the most compelling and sophisticated view of urban racial and class conflict that one could hope to encounter." - The New York Times

Fires in the Mirror Review

Thank God! I've been waiting it seems like forever for this documentation of Anna Deavere Smith's work to become available as visual media. Now I can share this with my communication students! Anna Deavere Smith is a genius. Her work epitomizes for me (and I would guess is inspired by) a deep desire to know the "other." To me, her work is a profound, rare and precious type of social research (!) which creates pathways that we can follow to learn how to understand each other, how to share our human journeys, and how to build peace. Anna Deavere Smith embodies the other... by that, I mean that she walks into, creates space for, and enacts-with her body and voice-the lived reality (feelings, paradoxes, rants, values, passions, convictions) of other people--all kinds of other people. She records interviews with them, and then she enacts the presence of the other. She is deeply blessed in her ability to do this. The particular piece that is for sale here represents her enactment of the perspectives of many people who have witnessed, or perhaps in some way participated in, a riot born of long-held resentments. Her work is ground-breaking, and she does a poetically, a reverently good job. I'm so glad that I am aware of Anna Deavere Smith's work, and that her work is part of my life.

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