Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
“As necessary now as when Los Angeles was actively smoldering,” (The New York Times), "Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992," running at the Loeb Drama Center Sunday, Aug. 28 through Saturday, Sept. 24, is a stirring cry for reform. Thirty years ago, the news of the police officers’ acquittal in Rodney King’s police brutality case reverberated throughout the streets of Los Angeles. Called “a riot,” “a revolution” and “a social explosion,” the events that followed drew worldwide attention—and inspired playwright, actor and scholar Anna Deavere Smith 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. Smith revised the play last year for a cast of five while in residence at Signature Theatre, where Taibi Magar directed this acclaimed production.
Notable Dates:
ASL interpreted: Sunday, 9/18 at 2 p.m. and Wednesday, 9/21 at 7:30 p.m.
Audio described: Saturday, 9/17 at 2 p.m. and Thursday 9/22 at 7:30 p.m.
Open captioned: Saturday, 9/17 at 2 p.m. and Thursday, 9/22 at 7:30 p.m.
Relaxed: Saturday, 9/24 at 2 p.m.