Let Me Down Easy
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 7, 2009
Closed Jan 3, 2010
Opened Oct 7, 2009
Closed Jan 3, 2010
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Second Stage Theatre launches its 31st season with the New York premiere of Anna Deavere Smith's Let Me Down Easy. Conceived, written, and performed by Ms. Smith and directed by Leonard Foglia, the piece explores the world of healthcare from both the patient and practitioner perspective.
Channeling a dramatic range of interview subjects, from artists and athletes to doctors and those they treat, Let Me Down Easy is a virtuosic and moving exploration of the power of the body and the resilience of the human spirit, featuring first person accounts from a wide variety of sources, including Lance Armstrong, Anderson Cooper, and former Texas Governor Ann Richards.
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Second Stage Theatre
305 W 43rd St
New York, NY 10036
Founded in 1979 under the leadership of artistic director Carole Rothman, Second Stage produces a diverse range of premieres and new interpretations of America's best contemporary theatre, including such productions as Coastal Disturbances, This Is O [...] Read More
305 W 43rd St
New York, NY 10036
Founded in 1979 under the leadership of artistic director Carole Rothman, Second Stage produces a diverse range of premieres and new interpretations of America's best contemporary theatre, including such productions as Coastal Disturbances, This Is O [...] Read More
WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
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Anna wins!
While some of the monologues are better than others, but the overall effect is mesmerizing. Some of the characters a doctor at Charity Hospital in New Orleans during Katrina; a woman who works in an AIDS hospice for children in South Africa are almost unbearably moving. While the play might not be the masterpiece that TWILIGHT was, it is a rare opportunity to watch a master of the genre do her thing. Go!
Reviewed by jennythepirate
on Saturday, Oct 24th, 2009
RE:definitely
ADS is mesmerizing to watch, even when the script loses its way. The audience ate her up, and with good reason. Go watch her be amazing.
Reviewed by eric51344
on Sunday, Sep 20th, 2009
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Death is a touchy subject for some people to talk about, but it's one that Anna Deavere Smith tackles head-on in Let Me Down Easy, her thought-provoking new theater piece, now at Second Stage Theatre. More precisely, it's a subject discussed by many of the more than 20 people whose conversations are presented verbatim by Smith over the course of an engrossing 95 minutes.
Flitting about on Riccardo Hernandez's all-white set and donning and doffing the appropriate accessories provided by costumer Ann Hould-Ward, the chameleonic Smith fully physicalizes each person she's interviewed. In doing so, she ultimately paints a compelling cross-section of humanity, from the high and mighty to the dec[...]