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In some ways, the FSU/Asolo Conservatory in Sarasota could not have picked a more timely play than Anna Deavere Smith’s powerful “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992” to open a new season for its second-year students.
This close-up look at the events that led to and followed the police beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles in 1991 resonates today after a seemingly endless number of cases of police abuse against people of color across the country.
And it speaks to the conservatory students who launched their own protest last summer, in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd and the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter demonstrations. In a letter to leaders of Florida State University, the conservatory and Asolo Repertory Theatre, the students raised concerns about institutional racism and the lack of diversity in their program.