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Anna Deavere Smith explores the power of the body in her one-woman show.
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.
What Is Let Me Down Easy Like?
A one-woman show featuring more characters than most classic Broadway musicals, Let Me Down Easy is an ambitious puzzle of snapshots which comprise a single picture. Veering from laugh-out-loud funny to touching to tragic, Smith's narrative occasionally drifts but never fails to be thought-provoking as she envelops herself and her subject matter in a 90-minute string of recreated conversations. Smith shows off a finely tuned talent for mimicry which makes each portrait, outrageous or otherwise, as provoking as it is effective.
Is Let Me Down Easy Good for Kids?
Healthcare red tape, steroid use in professional sports, treatment options for terminally ill patients—all of these topics are more suitable for adults and will fly over the heads of kiddies. Teens, however, might be ready for this master class in a hot topic, though those uncomfortable with heavy themes like death and dying should be warned not every experience from Smith's interviews is light.
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