Word: smith
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...Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue topped off its inaugural season on August 6 with a performance of scenes from House Arrest, a work-in-progress by Anna Deveare Smith...
...Smith, a celebrated playwright, is founder and director of the institute, a three-year project focusing on artistic collaboration as a method for expanding civic dialogue...
...time when people are so alienated from politics and government, the institute is an experiment that seeks to find ways in which artists can re-engage people not only in art, but also in the decision-making that affects their lives and the larger society around them," Smith said in a press release...
...performance of scenes from Smith's House Arrest was the culmination of a theater laboratory Smith conducted for actors this summer. For over a month, the institute has hosted about 50 film-makers, dancers, musicians, playwrights and actors. Participants lived near the University and held symposia and free, public performances...
After the performance, the audience, actors and panelists--who included Barbara E. Johnson, Wertham professor of law and psychiatry in society, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Lawrence H. Tribe '62, Tyler professor of constitutional law--discussed the political content of Smith's latest work...