Inspired by the 1973 killing of a ten-year-old boy by New York City police, THE MOJO AND THE SAYSO is both a comic and dramatic study of the ways that people cope with the aftermath of terrible tragedy.
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1988, Crossroads Theater Company, New Brunswick NJ
2019
Broadway Play Publishing, Incorporated
9780881454628
included in Moon Marked & Touched by Sun, Sydné Mahone Ed.
included in Moon Marked & Touched by Sun, Sydné Mahone Ed.
Stylized
"A simple ride to retrieve a birthday gift sends a young teenage girl named Romy and her two fathers on a phantasmagoric ride through a harrowing night. Lupe, her birth father, forces her to choose between him and Ben, the fresh-faced Ft. Bliss soldier whom recently married her mother. The winner gets to live." - newplayexchnange.org
Solo Show
Twilight is a stunning work of "documentary theater" that explores the devastating human impact of the five days of riots following the Rodney King verdict. From nine months of interviews with more than two hundred people, Smith has chosen the voices that best reflect the diversity and tension of a city in turmoil: a disabled Korean man, a white male Hollywood talent agent, a Panamanian immigrant mother, a teenage black gang member, a macho Mexican-American artist, Rodney King's aunt, beaten truck driver Reginald Denny, former Los Angeles police chief Daryl Gates, and other witnesses, participants, and victims.
