"Is race a trope?" Anna Deavere Smith's performances not only ask but embody this question. They also ask another, equally important question: "Who is asking?"
Anna Deavere Smith is an African American performance artist known for her technique of interviewing subjects, particularly on matters of race, and then recreating her subjects' responses with a difference on-stage. She has recently gained tremendous popularity for her work Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, part of her larger ...