In 1992, the news of the police officers鈥� acquittal in Rodney King鈥檚 police brutality case reverberated throughout the streets of Los Angeles. Called 鈥渁 riot,鈥� 鈥渁 revolution,鈥� and 鈥渁 social explosion,鈥� the events that followed drew worldwide attention鈥攁nd inspired playwright, actor, and scholar Anna Deavere Smith (Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education, Let Me Down Easy, Fires in the Mirror) to dissect the anatomy of the civil unrest. Her Tony Award-nominated, Obie Award-winning exploration derived from interviews with more than 350 Los Angelinos reveals the fault lines that set the city ablaze. 鈥淎s necessary now as when Los Angeles was actively smoldering,鈥� (The New York Times), Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 is a stirring cry for reform.
Directed by Gregg T. Daniel
Conceived, Written and Revised by Anna Deavere Smith
Featuring Hugo Armstrong, Lovensky Jean-Baptiste, Lisa Rene茅 Pitts, Jeanne Sakata, Sabina Z煤帽iga Varela
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