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The Michigan Tech Theatre Company presents “Fires in the Mirror,” a play by American playwright, author, actress and professor Anna Deavere Smith.
Performances are Wednesday and Thursday of this week (Nov. 15 & 16) with additional performances Nov. 30, Dec. 1-2. Curtain time is 7:30 p.m. each evening in the McArdle Theatre on the second floor of the Walker Arts and Humanities Center.
“Fires in the Mirror” chronicles the viewpoints of people from two different communities, Black and Jewish, connected directly and indirectly to the Crown Heights riot which occurred in Brooklyn in August 1991.
How can these things happen? A child is hit by a car while playing on the sidewalk. In retaliation, a young man is stabbed to death. A community turns inward upon itself, neighbor set against neighbor. Can an out of balance world be set right?
Smith interviewed members of Brooklyn’s Crown Heights Community and using their own words assembled a retelling of their solemn road from hate and violence to understanding. At once poignant and colored by powerful feelings, “Fires in the Mirror” is an unusual evening of theatre taking us to the heart of disaster and understanding and bringing us home safe.
Tickets are on sale now, $13 for adults, $5 for youth and no charge for Michigan Tech students with the Experience Tech fee. Tickets are available by phone at 906-487-2073, online, in person at the Central Ticketing Office in the Student Development Complex or on the night of each performance at the McArdle Theatre beginning one hour prior to show time.
