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Description

1. 58 pages; 20 cm

Summary

1. "In this solo show constructed from verbatim interview transcripts, Anna Deavere Smith examines the miracle of human resilience through the lens of the national debate on health care. After collecting interviews with over 300 people on three continents, Smith creates an indelible gallery of 20 portraits--known and unknown, from a rodeo bull rider, a prize fighter, to a New Orleans doctor during Hurricane Katrina, as well as former Texas Governor Ann Richards, cyclist Lance Armstrong, film critic Joel Siegel, and supermodel Lauren Hutton. It renders laughter and tears--a work of emotional brilliance and political substance from one of the treasures of the American theater. Originally created as a one person show, the author encourages multi-actor productions of the play."--Dramatists Play Service website

Subject

1. Medical care > Drama
2. Health care reform > United States > Drama
3. Resilience (Personality trait) > Drama
4. Hurricane Katrina, 2005 > Drama
5. Health care reform
6. Medical care
7. United States

Genre/Form

1. Drama.

Call number

1. Sc D 18-150

Note

1. Cast: 1W (or flexible cast).

Author

1. Smith, Anna Deavere, author.

Title

1. Let me down easy / by Anna Deavere Smith.

Publisher

1. New York : Dramatists Play Service, [2016]

Copyright date

1. ©2016

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

LCCN

1. 2017478782

ISBN

1. 082222948X
2. 9780822229483

Research call number

1. Sc D 18-150