Spectacle
The main element of Fires in the Mirror that is of up most importance to the spectacle of the play, is the fact that Fires in the Mirror is originally staged as a one-person play. A single actor plays every single part. Smith staged her play with no real physical set and limited props and costumes. At the world premiere of Fires in the Mirror, Smith performs as a solo actor on stage. Real black and white photographs are displayed behind her as she moves from one monologue and character to the next.3 She moves from one character to the next by slightly changing her appearance. In most of her performance she is dressed in black pants and white shirt and is barefoot.
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“The spectacle of misery grew in its crushing volume. There seemed to be no end to the houses full of hunted starved children. Children with dysentery, children with scurvy, children at every stage of starvation.... We learned to know that the barometer of starvation was the number of children deserted in any community.”
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