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Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

Presented by University of Pennsylvania - Theatre Arts Program at Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts - Bruce Montgomery Theatre

February 16-February 17, 2012

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This is a workshop production of University of Pennsylvania Theatre Arts majors, with senior Theatre Arts major Danielle Bainbridge directing.

Acclaimed as "an American masterpiece" (Newsweek), Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 is a stunning new work of "documentary theatre" in which Anna Deavere Smith uses the verbatim words of people who experienced the Los Angeles riots to expose and explore the devastating human impact of that event. From nine months of interviews with more than two hundred people, Smith has chosen the voices that best reflect the diversity and tension of a city in turmoil: a disabled Korean man, a white male Hollywood talent agent, a Panamanian immigrant mother, a teenage black gang member, a macho Mexican-American artist, Rodney King's aunt, beaten truck driver Reginald Denny, former Los Angeles police chief Daryl Gates and other witnesses, participants and victims. A work that goes directly to the heart of the issues of race and class, Twilight ruthlessly probes the language and the lives of its subjects, offering stark insight into the complex and pressing social, economic and political issues that fueled the flames in the wake of the Rodney King verdict.