UK Premiere of Notes From the Field Announced as part of LIFT’s New Season

Anna Deavere Smith returns to the Royal Court Theatre for her first London appearance in over 25 years with her Obie-Award-winning Notes From the Field 13 June 2018 – 23 June 2018.

‘For 40 years, I have been creating plays out of fragments of conversations with diverse groups of people from all over the country. When I was a girl, my paternal grandfather and I used to spend hours talking. He said, “If you say a word often enough it becomes you”.’ Anna Deavere Smith

Drawn from interviews with more than 250 students, parents, teachers and staff caught up in the USA’s school-to-prison pipeline, this powerful solo performance shines a light on a lost generation of American youth and exposes a justice system that pushes underprivileged minority communities out of the classroom and into incarceration.

Presented by LIFT and The Royal Court Theatre with support from Jordan Roth. Produced in Partnership with ArKtype / Thomas O. Kriegsmann. Part of The Anna Deavere Smith Pipeline Project, produced by Anna Deavere Smith. Originally produced by American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, MA and Second Stage Theatre, New York City.

For tickets visit the show page here.

More information on the production can be found in the press release here.