Notes from the Field

Name: Notes from the Field
Brand: ANCHOR
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By: Anna Deavere Smith

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Paperback | 21 May 2019

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192 Pages

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19.68 x 12.7 x 1.91

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From the Tony- and Pulitzer-nominated playwright, actress, and activist: shining a light on the school-to-prison pipeline, this urgent new work of drama brings together seventeen voices from the African American community--students and teachers, counselors and congressmen, preachers and prisoners. Now a full-length HBO feature. An Anchor Original.

Notes from the Field--originally performed as a one-person play--portrays a host of real-life figures who have witnessed, experienced, and fought the system that pushes students of color out of the classroom and into prisons. (As Smith put it in a recent interview: "Stuff that for middle-class kids or rich kids, it'd be considered mischief; for poor kids, it's really that road to prison.") We are introduced to these figures one by one: Sherrilyn Iffil, president of the NAACP; Rev. Jamal Harrison Bryant, who spoke at the funeral of Freddie Gray; Niya Kenny, a high school student who was arrested for defending a classmate against a teacher's overzealous discipline; Bree Newsome, the activist who made headlines when she removed the Confederate flag from the state house grounds of South Carolina; and many others. Taken together, these voices bear powerful witness to a great injustice of our time--and inspire us with their accounts of perseverance, resistance, and progress.

Industry Reviews

"Invaluable. . . . Absorbing. . . . Dazzling." --The New York Times

"Deeply moving. . . . Dazzling stagecraft meets dazzling spectacle. . . . Magnificent. . . . Wonderful." --Newsday

"Moving. . . . Smith is an effective and supremely talented conduit." --Los Angeles Times

"Anna Deavere Smith has created one of her most ambitious and powerful works on how matters of race continue to divide and enslave the nation." --Variety

"Devastating. . . . Astonishing. . . . Unquestionably great theater." --Vulture

"Brilliant. . . . Anna Deavere Smith may be the most empathetic person in America." --HuffPost

"[A] masterpiece. . . . Smith's powerful style of living journalism uses the collective, cathartic nature of the theater to move us from despair toward hope." --The Village Voice

"Urgently timely. . . . Audacious and mind-opening." --Time Out New York

"This is captivating political theatre, a devastating document of racial inequality and the most rousing of rallying calls. Everyone should watch it." --The Guardian

"A tour de force. . . . A coruscating indictment of the school-to-prison pipeline." --Financial Times

"Stirring. . . . Powerful. . . . The scope is almost Shakespearean: the voices range from policy professionals to people on the street. If there's an overarching thrust . . . it lies in the suggestion that the struggle for civil rights is ongoing: the legacy of segregation, its trauma too, endures and reasserts itself." --The Telegraph (London)

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