Characters in Twilight Los Angeles

Twilight Los Angeles is divided into six main sections:

Smoke, Rocked, Morning After, Losses, Justice, and Twilight.

Within each section, Anna Deavere Smith uses the words from over 300 personal interviews to portray a variety of characters who witnessed and sometimes participated in the events in Los Angeles in 1992. Her performance is divided into parts-much the way a play is divided into acts or a book in which the mood of the story changes as one character ends and another begins.

Smoke

"Safe and Sound in Beverly Hills"
Elaine Young, real estate agent

"My Enemy"
Rudy Salas, Sr., sculptor and artist
Angela King, Rodney King's aunt

"Control Holds"
Sgt. Charles Duke, Special Weapons and Tactical Unit, LAPD

"No Justice, No Peace: The Latasha Harlins Story"
Charles Lloyd, attorney for Soon Ja Du
Ginna Rae (a.k.a. Queen Malkah) community activist
Jay Woong Yahng, former liquor store owner

"Indelible Substance"
Jose Morales, clerk/typist

"Your Heads in Shame"
Anonymous Male Juror in Simi Valley trial

Rocked

"Big and Dangerous Things"
Henry "Keith" Watson, co-assailant of Reginald Denny
Shelby Coffey III, former editor, Los Angeles Times
Katie Miller, Bookkeeper and accountant
Mrs. June Park, wife of Korean shooting victim
Katie Miller
Stanley K. Sheinbaum, former president Los Angeles Police Commission
Daryl Gates, former chief of LAPD
Stanley K. Sheinbaum
Federico Sandoval, occupation unknown
Ruben Martinez, author/journalist
Maxine Waters, Congresswoman (D-CA)
Charlton Heston, actor/activist
Katie Miller
Mrs. June Park
Shelby Colby III

"Absorb a Little Guilt"
Talent agent, anonymous Hollywood agency
Elaine Young
Henry "Keith" Watson

Morning After

"Open Your Eyes"
Elvira Evers, cashier

"The Roar"
Jessye Norman, opera singer
Henry "Keith" Watson

Losses

"I Gonna Have a Room"
Reginald Denny, truck driver, victim
Paul Parker, chairman, Free the LA Four Plus Defense Committee
Reginald Denny
Paul Parker

"Prisoner of Hope"
Cornel West, scholar

Justice

"AA Meeting"
Maria, Juror #7, federal trial

"Swallowing the Bitterness"
Mrs. Young-Soon Han, former liquor store owner

Twilight

"Limbo"
Twilight Bey, activist