Anna Deavere Smith said in an interview: ‘Listen to people and listen to stories…Tell a story that has multiple points of view…The old idea of the single author is flawed because ultimately it takes multiple people to tell the story of a community.’

The definition of a community is a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common. My piece is story about me and my community. My community being my family.

Not directly though.

Smith also said in the same interview: ‘Acting is the ability to believe that you are someone else.’ I don’t want my piece to be a sob story about my life and the hard things me and my family have been through, it will be my life but through a different character eyes.

I will listen to my family and listen to their stories and then tell my story, that has mulitple points of view, through someone else.

Anna Deavere Smith interview – http://bigthink.com/videos/how-do-you-get-into-character