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Date

Sunday, February 23, 2025 3:00PM

Name

Fires in the Mirror
Location: Bristol Riverside Theatre, 120 Radcliffe St, Bristol, PA

Description

What everyone agreed on: Two cars collided. One, driven by a Hasidic Jew, veered off the road and critically injured two Black children. A crowd formed. Police arrived. What no one agreed on: Anything else. In the summer of 1991, Crown Heights, NY exploded into three days of violence fed by rumors and competing narratives formed from incomplete facts. In the chaos, some saw anti-Black police bias and preferential treatment of Jews. Others saw violent anti-Semitism unleashed by government complicity. But playwright Anna Deveare Smith heard the honest voices of a divided national narrative. Join us for this remarkable play that features the real words of 26 people, interviewed immediately after the events, speaking honestly, the way we do in private. Let’s listen.

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