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One Woman, Many Voices: LET ME DOWN EASY at PTC

There are many voices in this nation’s health care debate, and Anna Deveare Smith could probably act out them all. In LET ME DOWN EASY, now onstage at Philadelphia Theatre Company’s Suzanne Roberts Theatre, she portrays twenty eclectic individuals, from sportspeople to supermodels, politicians to doctors, as they share their thoughts on health and death. Smith’s compiled her material over the course of several years, interviewing hundreds of patients, doctors, and others about their experiences with deadly illness and health care. more…