Kevin Moore

Notes from the Field, Royal Court, London, review: Anna Deavere Smith's powerful expose of America's criminal justice system

• This harrowing and rousing solo show is the result of 250 interviews conducted during the Obama administration by the verbatim theatre pioneer and West Wing actor, Anna Deavere Smith. The Gate Theatre in Notting Hill recently revived her Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, a tapestry of testimonies gathered in the wake of Rodney King's televised beating. Rather, it is a powerful, patiently-assembled expose of the catastrophic inequities and iniquities of America's criminal justice system.