Fires in the Mirror, part one

This is the first part of Anna Deavere Smith’s play, “Fires in the Mirror.“ Smith’s dramatic technique is highly unusual. She interviews hundreds of citizens and community leaders, recording their words and then composing the play as a series of fragments from these interviews. She then memorizes their exact words and intonations and performs all of the roles in a one-woman show. “Fires in the Mirror“ chronicles a civic disturbance in the racially divided neighborhood of Crown Heights, Brooklyn NYC, in