Anna Deavere Smith Retells Rodney King’s Story in Theatre

Anna Deavere Smith Retells Rodney King’s Story in Theatre

“Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992” premièred nearly thirty years ago, but it’s one of the most current and important plays on Broadway right now. Anna Deavere Smith pioneered a form now known as verbatim theatre: instead of creating characters and writing dialogue, she would interview dozens or hundreds of people about an event, and weave a story from those real characters and their words. “Twilight” is about the deadly violence and unrest that erupted after police officers were acquitted of the ferocious beating of Rodney King—one of the first episodes of police brutality caught on videotape and broadcast to the nation. Her form, she tells David Remnick, let her complicate the racial dynamics of Black and white people, to include the voices of Asian Americans and Latinx people involved in the uprising. Deavere talks about how the play reads now, after George Floyd’s murder and the uprising that followed, and about what still hasn’t changed in the cultural climate for Black theatre artists.

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Episode 61: Jeanette Winterson’s Christmas and Obama’s Legacy

Episode 61: Jeanette Winterson’s Christmas and Obama’s Legacy

The New Yorker’s political reporters assess the successes and failures of Barack Obama’s Presidency; Jeanette Winterson celebrates Christmas; and a poet visits the food court.

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Episode 60: What Is Trumpism?

Episode 60: What Is Trumpism?

A populist candidate hires an economic team from Goldman Sachs, and an English professor delivers a Hegelian analysis of Trump the disrupter. Plus, Michael Chabon on TV’s best, most boring show.

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Episode 59: The Koch Brothers and Boxing Champion Heather Hardy

Episode 59: The Koch Brothers and Boxing Champion Heather Hardy

Jane Mayer gets pushback after she investigates the Koch brothers; Heather Hardy prepares for a big fight; and an astronomer makes his case for the existence of a new ninth planet.

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Episode 58: Bruce Springsteen Talks with David Remnick

Episode 58: Bruce Springsteen Talks with David Remnick

Bruce Springsteen tells David Remnick why he waited decades to put out a memoir.

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Episode 57: Zadie Smith and Conservatives Strike Back

Episode 57: Zadie Smith and Conservatives Strike Back

A conservative keeps the faith in the age of Trump; Zadie Smith discusses the death of the novel; and a Thanksgiving side dish speaks out.

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Episode 56: Leonard Cohen’s Last Days and Donald Trump’s First Term

Episode 56: Leonard Cohen’s Last Days and Donald Trump’s First Term

David Remnick’s conversation with Leonard Cohen in the last months of the musician’s life, and Amy Davidson and George Packer grapple with the Trump Presidency.

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Podcast Extra: Looking Back with Leonard Cohen

Podcast Extra: Looking Back with Leonard Cohen

In Leonard Cohen’s last interview, he discusses his career, his spiritual influences, and what he is doing to prepare for death.

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Episode 55: Final Notes on the 2016 Election

Episode 55: Final Notes on the 2016 Election

The 2016 election gets the Hollywood treatment, and an evangelical minister contemplates the decline of the Christian G.O.P.

4 Marras 201655min

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