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Fires in the Mirror

Rutgers Theater Company, 2011
Director, Lynda Gravatt
Set Design, Nathalie Schlosser
Costume Design, Stefanie Genda
Lighting Design, Matt Bathe
Photos by Larry Levanti

Fires in the Mirror was originally written and performed as a one woman show by Anna Deavere Smith.  Throughout the show she explored the racial and religious riots that occurred in 1991 in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, between the Lubavitcher and black communities.  Smith interviewed those associated with the events and performed monologues based on those interviews.
In our production we cast a total of 15 actors to portray the 32 characters including three preformers to act as Smith.  
The three Anna Deavere Smith
Anonymous Lubavitcher Woman, preschool teacher
The Reverend Al Sharpton
Monique 'Big Mo' Matthews, a Los Angeles rapper
A transition between monologues, the streets of Crown Heights
Minister Conrad Mohammed, African American minister of New York who associates himself with Nation of Islam
Rabbi Joseph Spielman, spokesperson in the Luabvitch community
Henry Rice, a Crown Heights resident
Anonymous Young Man #2, a Crown Heights resident
Anna assumes the character of Sonny Carson, an activist, as he finishes his monologue
Richard Green, Director of the Crown Heights Youth Collective and Co-director of Project CURE
Roslyn Malamud, Lubavitcher resident of Crown Heights
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