Explore performance as a way of knowing with award-winning actress, playwright, and professor Anna Deavere Smith.
This is the second lecture in the four-part series Chasing That Which Is Not Me / Chasing That Which Is Me, the 73rd A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts. Smith will conduct a solo reading from her newest play “This Ghost of Slavery,” published in The Atlantic (December 2023).
Since 1980, Smith has been interviewing Americans through her project “On the Road: A Search for American Character,” which she eventually developed into a new form of theater. Delivered with segments of performance, these lectures will examine materials collected from these interviews over the course of Smith’s career.