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Additional authors

1. Mordecai, Benjamin
2. Rafaty, Laura, 1958-
3. Wanetik, Ric
4. Wolfe, George C
5. Davidson, Gordon, 1933-2016
6. Smith, Anna Deavere
7. Smith, Anna Deavere
8. New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater, producer
9. Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles, producer
10. Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, Calif.), producer

Description

1. 1 videocassette (22 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 3/4 in. (U-matic)

Summary

1. Reviewer's reel of Anna Deavere Smith's one-person show about the Los Angeles riots of 1992, which ran first at the Joseph Papp Public Theater, March 8-April 3, 1994, then on Broadway at the Cort Theatre, April 17-June 19, 1994.

Subject

1. Theatrical productions > New York (State) > New York > 1991-2000
2. One-person shows (Performing arts)
3. Riots > California > Los Angeles > Drama
4. Los Angeles (Calif.) > Race relations > Drama
5. Race relations > Drama
6. Theater > New York (State) > New York
7. Drama
8. Koreans > California > Los Angeles > Drama
9. Immigrants > California > Drama
10. African Americans > California > Los Angeles > Drama
11. Smith, Anna Deavere > Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
12. Trailers and promo's

Genre/Form

1. Drama.
2. Trailers and promo's.

Contents

1. Scenes excerpted: Marquee -- Montage -- Elaine Young, real estate agent -- Keith Watson, former security guard -- Daryl Gates, former Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department -- Reginald Denny, truck driver -- Paul Parker, chairperson, Free the L.A. Four -- Angela King, aunt of Rodney King -- Mrs. Young-Soon Han, former liquor store owner -- Curtain call.

Call number

1. NCOX 1118

Note

1. No production credits on tape.
2. Videorecordings of this show in its entirety are available on NCOV 1509 (taped at the Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, Calif., July 11, 1993) and NCOV 1669 (taped at the Cort Theatre, New York, N.Y., May 18, 1994).

Access (note)

1. Restricted to qualified researchers.

Performer (note)

1. Performed by Anna Deavere Smith.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped at the Cort Theatre, New York, N.Y., April 6, 1994.

Title

1. Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 (reviewer's reel) [videorecording] / Produced by Benjamin Mordecai, Laura Rafaty, Ric Wanetik, the Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival, and the Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum (Gordon Davidson, artistic director) ; conceived, written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith ; directed by George C. Wolfe.

Imprint

1. New York, 1994.

Access

1. Restricted to qualified researchers.

Performer

1. Performed by Anna Deavere Smith.

Event

1. Videotaped at the Cort Theatre, New York, N.Y., April 6, 1994.

Local note

1. Gift of Joel Siegel.

Added author

1. Mordecai, Benjamin, producer.
2. Rafaty, Laura, 1958- producer.
3. Wanetik, Ric, producer.
4. Wolfe, George C, producer.
5. Wolfe, George C, director.
6. Davidson, Gordon, 1933-2016, producer.
7. Smith, Anna Deavere. Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992.
8. Smith, Anna Deavere, actor.
9. Smith, Anna Deavere, conceptor.
10. New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater, producer.
11. Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles, producer.
12. Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, Calif.), producer.
13. Siegel, Joel, 1943-2007, donor.

Research call number

1. NCOX 1118