Channeling a dramatic range of interview subjects, from artists and athletes to doctors and those they treat, Let Me Down Easy features first person accounts from the world of healthcare, covering both the patient and practitioner perspective.
What Is the Story of Let Me Down Easy?
Actress, writer and expert researcher Anna Deveare Smith returns to the New York stage by shining her distinctive light on a headline-worthy subject: healthcare in America. Taken verbatim from interviews conducted by Smith, Let Me Down Easy pieces together stories from across the spectrum of experience. The actress recreates each speaker onstage, covering a varied cast of characters from Tour de France champion and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong to a professional bull fighter to former Texas Governor Ann Richards to a variety of experts from the health care industry, creating a vivid snapshot of the arguments from all sides of a complex subject.
