Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 | Smith's Skill With Multiple and Complex Characters
Stuart praises Smith's writing and acting work in the following review, noting her skill with multiple and complex characters.
Toward the end of her heroic docu-theater event about the police beating of Rodney King and its violent aftermath, Anna Deavere Smith does something very, very clever.
Having impersonated dozens of participants in the 1992 Los Angeles maelstrom for some two hours, Smith steps into the shoes of Maria, a juror in the second Rodney King trial. We like Maria. She's theatrical, a spiky, pull-no-punches sort with a few choice words reserved for her fellow jurors. "Brain-dead," for starters.
One by one, Maria takes aim and caricatures each of her colleagues with their psychic...
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