Anna Deavere Smith: Doing Time in Education, Now in Rehearsal at the A.R.T.

Created, written, and performed by Anna Deavere Smith. Music composed and performed by Marcus Shelby.
Directed by Leonard Foglia.

Urgent and inspiring, Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education outlines the civil rights crisis currently erupting at the intersection between America's education system and its mass incarceration epidemic. In act one, Anna Deavere Smith introduces the students, parents, teachers, and administrators caught in America's school-to-prison "pipeline" through her trademark portrait performances.

Watch Anna Deavere Smith's talk at the recent TCG Conference.

A leader in national conversations on race and justice, Smith (Fires in the Mirror; Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992; Let Me Down Easy; "Nurse Jackie") now asks audiences to talk back. In the tradition of call and response, a second act before a final coda performance invites audiences to reflect on how we might begin to collectively move forward from difficult histories and devastating social policies.

"Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education" runs at the American Repertory Theater from August 20 to September 17, 2016. Tickets can be purchased here.