Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 | Smith's Skill as a Performer of Her Own Material
Fiero is an experienced actor and a professor at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. In this essay he discusses Smith's skill as a performer of her own material and its role in the effectiveness of her play.
On January 27, 1997, at the New York Town Hall, Anna Deavere Smith moderated a debate between playwright August Wilson and theater pundit Robert Brustein over Wilson's position that black American playwrights should work within a theater exclusively devoted to black culture. Wilson had taken particular umbrage with the practice of "color-blind-casting," especially as it pertains to casting black actors in “white'' plays. According to Henry Louis Gates, Jr., in Wilson's view, "for a black actor to walk the stage of Western drama was to collaborate with the culture of racism," to demean,...
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