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According to Director Tammy Chang, the goal of Twilight is not just to awaken the dormant phantom of the '92 riots, but to use it to re-expose issues of racial segregation and inequality. "Someone who comes away from the show thinking that they've seen the 'black perception' of the Rodney King Beating, or the 'Latino' perspective on police brutality will have missd the point completely," she says. Though the Rodney King verdict and the ensuing riots have all but vanished from the discourse of this university, discredited for their sensationalism, Twilight reinstates their importance in the struggle...
...original one-woman format, and also because the material comes from one-on-one interviews, the performance is devoid of dialogue or character interaction. Generally, such a format would risk looking like an acting exercise, but in Twilight it implicitly explains one of the reasons behind the riots. Chang notes that "each character lives in a box, limited by experience and what they know." The lack of interaction speaks to the lack of dialogue in the city, the silence of segregation. The riots were the result of an inability to communicate in any other way than violence and media sensationalism...
...case of Trilogy, they have to evangelize their products through marketing," says Jimmie C. Chang, a technology analyst at U.S. Trust, an investment consulting firm...
Trilogy also must battle other start-up companies that are nipping at its heels, Chang says...
...danger down the road is that when they go public, people cash out," Chang says. "I think that there are a lot of companies that were too young when they went public...