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SYNOPSIS: In 1991, in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, an Hasidic man鈥檚 car jumped a curb, killing Gavin Cato, a seven-year-old Black child. Later, in what appears to have been an act of retaliation on the part of a faction of the black community, Yankel Rosenbaum, an Hasidic rabbinical student, was stabbed and killed. The ensuing riots that wracked Crown Heights鈥� previous atmosphere of tolerance for its divergent cultures made national headlines and pointed to the growing friction in racial and cultural relations across America.

Drawing verbatim from a series of over fifty interviews with Crown Heights鈥� residents, politicians, activists, religious leaders, gangs, street dwellers, victims, and perpetrators alike, Anna Deavere Smith鈥檚 Fires in the Mirror is a theatrical event distilling the lives and voices of twenty-six of the incident鈥檚 survivors into a visionary amalgam, the import of which touches upon every American regardless of race, color, or beliefs.


Directed by Nicole Brewer

Performed by Khanisha Foster & Cloteal L. Horne