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What Is the Story of Let Me Down Easy?
Actress, writer and expert researcher Anna Deveare Smith returns to the New York stage by shining her distinctive light on a headline-worthy subject: healthcare in America. Taken verbatim from interviews conducted by Smith, Let Me Down Easy pieces together stories from across the spectrum of experience. The actress recreates each speaker onstage, covering a varied cast of characters from Tour de France champion and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong to a professional bull fighter to former Texas Governor Ann Richards to a variety of experts from the health care industry, creating a vivid snapshot of the arguments from all sides of a complex subject.
