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From the award-winning actor and playwright Anna Deavere Smith, two teeming, pungent cross-sections of the American experience.
Two Plays
Anchor
April 2003
304 pages
ISBN: 1400033578
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Contemporary
In the provocative and at times bitterly funny play
House Arrest, Smith examines the relationships
between a succession of American presidents and their
observers in and out of the press. Arcing from Clinton and
Monica Lewinsky to Jefferson and Sally Hemings and alive
with the voices of such real-life figures as Ed Bradley,
George Stephanopoulos, Anita Hill, and Abraham Lincoln, the
result is a priceless examination of the intersection of
public power and private life. In Piano, Smith casts her gaze back a century as she
follows the tangled lines of race, sex, and exploitation in
a prosperous Cuban household on the eve of the Spanish-
American War. Deftly and suspensefully, Smith tells a story
of ruptured allegiances and ramifying deceptions in which
no one?master or servant, friend or enemy?is what he or she
pretends to be. Together these two plays are further proof
that Anna Deavere Smith is one of the most searing and
revelatory voices in the American theater.
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