Theater Interview Essay

Theater offers the audience a glimpse into the lives of the people portrayed. Smith does a dramatic interpretation of the different people she has interviewed. By acting out the interviews rather than quoting them in a article or taking a video and risk compromising anonymity, she is able to connect with the audience better. Smith also uses a technique that implements video alongside spoken performance to get her point across. In this case, it is very successful because the snippets of video used build on the narrative of the people being interviewed. She is able to capture many different perspectives on the Los Angeles riots by doing this as well. In journalism and reporting, it is important to get many different, sometimes contradicting, point of views when reporting a major event like this because the truth is not always clear. An example of this is at one point, several of the interviewees are saying that justice was found when the retrial committed the policemen as …show more content…
However, in the next scene, the Korean interviewees that had their shops destroyed during the riots say that there is no justice in the United States, and that no one cared about the millions of dollars in damages done during