GREAT PERFORMANCES
TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES
SATURDAY, AUGUST 25 @ 7:00PM
When Anna Deavere Smith’s drama Twilight: Los Angeles premiered in Los Angeles at the Mark Taper Forum, it made national news for its unique and unflinching look at the fallout from the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Not only did Smith capture the tumultuous aftermath of the Rodney King trial verdict, she created a searing, innovative and truly American piece of theater.
On April 22, 2012, David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Timesbook critic, assessing the literature of those riots, wrote, “the most comprehensive literary response to the riots remains Anna Deavere Smith’s “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992,” a theater piece, written and performed by an outsider who channels the cacophony of voices at the city’s heart.”
