Dale Fincher » anna deavere smith http://soulation.org/daleblog exploring faith, culture, and human experience Mon, 07 May 2012 04:22:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Human Monologues http://soulation.org/daleblog/2008/06/human-monologues.html http://soulation.org/daleblog/2008/06/human-monologues.html#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:38:00 +0000 Dale Fincher http://soulation.org/daleblog/2008/06/human-monologues.html Anna Deavere Smith has interviewed a couple thousand people and then turns some of them into monologues. This is a proper example of using theatre to create awareness. No propaganda here. Just insight into the everyday world of the quirkiness and despair the human soul finds itself. Well performed.

Four monologues fill this 23 minute recording. The second monologue is hard to swallow but the best of the four. Sit in it. Notice the thought process of Paulette Jenkins, the convict, and how quickly things go dark–a victim who becomes a perpetrator.

I like the use of ‘human touch’ in the first monologue and turning perceptions of racism around in the third monologue. An honest cowboy in the last….

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