A Soft Focus On The Body

by Staff | January 18, 2008 12:12 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The project started right here in New Haven, where Anna Deavere Smith collected the words of doctors and patients while serving as visiting professor at the Yale School of Medicine. The project soon spilled beyond the walls of the Yale-New Haven Hospital, though, and by the time the project was completed, she had interviewed athletes and supermodels, healers and hospice-workers, human rights activists and war criminals. The result is a world premiere on the Long Wharf stage, exploring the health care system. Click here for Christopher Grobe's review