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Photo Coverage: Inside Opening Night of Anna Deavere Smith's NOTES FROM THE FIELD
By: Jennifer Broski Nov. 03, 2016
Second Stage Theatre's New York Premiere production of NOTES FROM THE FIELD: DOING TIME IN EDUCATION, the latest work created, written and performed by groundbreaking theatre artist Anna Deavere Smith with music composed and performed by Marcus Shelby and directed by Leonard Foglia, opened just last night, November 2, 2016 at the Tony Kiser Theatre (305 West 43rd Street).
One of the most hailed and provocative theatre artists of our time, Anna Deavere Smith, leads a new installation of powerful first-person storytelling inNOTES FROM THE FIELD: DOING TIME IN EDUCATION. Urgent and inspiring, it depicts the personal accounts of students, parents, teachers and administrators caught in America's school-to-prison pipeline, as they experience in their wider communities the inequities of poverty, lack of opportunity, and over-aggressive policing. Investigating a justice system that pushes minors from poor communities out of the classroom and into incarceration, NOTES FROM THE FIELD: DOING TIME IN EDUCATION shines a light on a lost generation of American youth. Drawn from interviews with more than 250 people living and working within a challenged system, Anna Deavere Smithcontinues her mastery of the documentary solo performance by stimulating awareness and ultimately, change for the better.
Photo Credit: Jennifer Broski
Douglas Carter Beane, Lewis Flinn
Douglas Carter Beane, Lewis Flinn
Elisa Solomon, Amy Stoller
Elisa Solomon, Amy Stoller
Anna Deavere Smith, Carole Rothman, Marcus Shelby
Anna Deavere Smith, Carole Rothman, Marcus Shelby
Anna Deavere Smith, Marcus Shelby
Anna Deavere Smith, Marcus Shelby
Anna Deavere Smith, Diane Sawyer
Anna Deavere Smith, Tony Goldwyn
Abby Abinanti, Marcus Shelby, Anna Deavere Smith
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