Anna Deavere Smith's new play, 'Let Me Down Easy,' explores illness & recovery

ANNA DEAVERE Smith says that first and foremost, before she's an actress or a playwright, she is a student of expression. When it came to crafting her most recent work, "Let Me Down Easy," about illness, death and the American health-care system, it was the language of her interviewees that drew her in.

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