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[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Is not an adaptation of]] ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' set in the Los Angeles area.
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[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Is not an adaptation of]] ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' set in the Los Angeles area.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The play effectively has 35 equally prominent protagonists.
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''Twilight: Los Angeles'' is a docudrama about the 1992 riots in Los Angeles. Author and performer Anna Deavere Smith interviewed 35 people about their experiences during the riots and recorded their observations. She then performed the interviews playing all of the roles.
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''Twilight: Los Angeles'' is a docudrama about the 1992 riots in Los Angeles. Author and performer Anna Deavere Smith Creator/AnnaDeavereSmith interviewed 35 people about their experiences during the riots and recorded their observations. She then performed the interviews playing all of the roles.
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* {{Profiling}}: Comes up in a couple of the monologues, including a description of a typical Driving While Black scenario.
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* {{Profiling}}: Comes up in a couple of the monologues, including a description of a typical Driving While Black scenario.
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* UrbanSegregation: Another major theme is how many of the upper-class white interviewees didn't see the riot coming because the conditions in poorer neighborhoods were totally invisible to them.
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* HeroicBystander: A few examples, including the people who pulled Reginald Denny out of his truck after he'd been attacked by rioters.
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* MoralMyopia: A heavily explored theme in the play, as many interviewees are either guilty of it or have suffered due to someone else's.
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* PerspectiveFlip: No matter which group you consider to be the 'bad guys' in the story of the riots, you will eventually hear about the events from their perspective in a way that humanizes them.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To Smith's play ''Fires in the Mirror'', which was about racial tensions and riots in Brooklyn.
* WhiteGuilt: A prominent topic in many of the the white interviewees' monologues is the extent to which they were complicit in the racial problems that led to the riots.
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* JusticeByOtherLegalMeans: According to one of the jurors involved, following the acquittal of the police officers involved in the Rodney King beating by an all-white jury, the presiding judge doxed was so horrified he ''doxed every last juror.juror''. This was significant because normally, the names of the jurors in a trial are not released for a specified period of time.
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* AudienceMonologue: All of the interviews ''are'' monologues.
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* RaceLift: Although people of many different races were interviewed, there was only one performer.
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* YouALLShareMyStory: This is the connecting point of the piece because it is about the experiences each person had during the riots.
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* AudienceMonologue: All of the interviews ''are'' monologues.
* CrosscastRole:
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters
* LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles
* PowderKegCrowd
* RaceLift: Although people of many different races were interviewed, there was only one performer.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines
* YouALLShareMyStory: This is the connecting point of the piece because it is about the experiences each person had during the riots.
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