Notes from the Field

"Smith's powerful style of living journalism uses the collective, cathartic nature of the theater to move us from despair toward hope." -The Village Voice

Anna Deavere Smith's extraordinary form of documentary theater shines a light on injustices by portraying the real-life people who have experienced them. "One of her most ambitious and powerful works on how matters of race continue to divide and enslave the nation" (Variety).

Smith renders a host of figures who have lived and fought the s...