Downtown Dialogues

Downtown Dialogues Episode 9: FIRES IN THE MIRROR


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Downtown Dialogues is a live video podcast that takes a behind-the-scenes look at different plays and their themes produced by Theatrical Outfit - Atlanta's Downtown Theatre.

GUEST is January LaVoy (Performer & Co-Director of FIRES IN THE MIRROR).

Music Credit: Raro Bueno by Chuzauzen & Hallon by Christian Bjoerklund

About FIRES IN THE MIRROR: How do you plan for a reckoning? Theatrical Outfit will commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the Crown Heights riot by bringing Anna Deavere Smith’s documentary theatre masterpiece to life with soaring theatricality. Taken directly from a series of interviews with over fifty members of the Jewish and Black communities following the historic riots, FIRES IN THE MIRROR: CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN, AND OTHER IDENTITIES turns their voices into a tour de force one-woman show starring January LaVoy. This groundbreaking play is “Viscerally Smart [And] Endlessly Empathetic” (The New Yorker).

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