The one-woman play Smith wrote and performed at the Mark Taper Forum in 1993 returns to that stage on Wednesday, March 8 with a cast of five LA actors.
Playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith sits on a bench outside a theater in Watts a few days after rehearsals started for a 30th-anniversary revival of her acclaimed play, “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992.”
Playwright-actress Anna Deveare Smith’s “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992,” made its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum in May 1993, with Smith performing all the characters in the play set amid the Los Angeles riots. A new 30th anniversary production, adapted by Smith to be performed by five actors, opens at the Mark Taper Forum on March 8, 2023.
Actor Hugo Armstrong during a rehearsal of the Center Theatre Group’s 30th anniversary revival of “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 at the Watts Labor Community Action Committee on Feb. 7, 2023. “I think the show is still, 30 years later, a very useful project for people of different races and different genders to come together,” Smith says, sitting next to Gregg T. Daniel, director of the new production that returns to the Mark Taper Forum from March 8 to April 9. “And to portray an issue that in America just will not go away.
That play was set to open the day after the Los Angeles riots began, and though it was postponed, the shadow of the L.A. uprising hung over the success it found Over breakfast at the Algonquin Hotel, Smith and Davidson agreed to work together on a play for the Mark Taper Forum. “I just remember going up on the roof of my girlfriend’s apartment, and looking around and seeing smoke, black smoke in all areas of the city,” he says. “It was people off the streets. Whispering, calling. It was quite a frightening time. This sense of instability, just a sort of, ‘My God, what’s going to happen now?’”
“It’s crazy,” he says. “I was in a high school library and I really don’t know this play. I open it and it just speaks to me. And now it’s 30 years later and I’m doing the monologue in the play.” “We were all looking at each other like, ‘Oh, this is it,’” he says. “Like, it’s finally happening. We assumed it was going to spread, and that wasn’t a bad thing. Finally, there was going to be a change.
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