Agents & Assets

A National and International Residency Performance Project

AGENTS & ASSETS is a Residency Performance Project which seeks to give voice to the people whose communities have been most devastated by drugs and counterproductive drug policies. The text of Agents & Assets is a March 18, 1998, hearing transcript from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The allegations in question in this session were made in a 1996 series of articles by journalist Gary Webb in the San Jose Mercury News, which alleged CIA involvement in crack cocaine trafficking into the Los Angeles area. With Agents and Assets LAPD puts day to day experiences in a larger social and political context while exposing the root causes and policies that help perpetuate poverty.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Performed @ Side Street Projects, 2000.

LAPD residency in Cochabamba, Bolivia in 2009.

Agents & Assets:
Witnessing the War on Drugs and on Communities

A publication focused on Agents & Assets performances and conversation from 2000 till 2006.
The book can be purchased on our website for $12.95.

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Performances/Residencies
2014 – Agentes y Activos, Queens Museum
2009 – Agentes y Activos, Bolivia
2008 – Agents & Assets, New York
2006 – Agents & Assets, Philadelphia and Baltimore
2005 – Agents & Assets, Los Angeles & The Netherlands
2004 – Agents & Assets, Cleveland
2002 – Agents & Assets, Detroit
2001 – Agents & Assets, Los Angeles

PDF’s
1. The Script (ENGLISH)
2. The Script (SPANISH)
3. Panel Excerpts
4. Highschool Curriculum
5. Alexander Speaks
6. Recreating Imbalance by John Malpede

Agents & Assets Press

  1. 2010 American Theater – Counting The Cost
  2. 2009 Zmagazine – Fearful Symmetry in Bolivia
  3. 2009 NPN – The LAPD does Drug Show in Bolivia
  4. 2009 Los Tiempos – Grupo teatral de EEUU critica política antidroga de su país
  5. 2009 Los Tiempos – Estrenan “Agentes y Activos” sobre la política de EEUU
  6. 2009 Los Tiempos – Bolivia y EEUU juntos en ‘Agentes y Activos’
  7. 2009 La Patria, Oruro – Obra teatral ‘Agentes Y Activos’ se estrena hoy en Oruro
  8. 2009 La Opinion – Función de teatro hoy en la Plaza Principal
  9. 2008 New York Daily News – Local ex-addicts key assets in play about war on drugs
  10. 2006 Philadelphia Daily News – Troupe from the ‘Hood
  11. 2005 Los Angeles Times – For this LAPD, the weapons are words
  12. 2005 KCRW – Agents & Assets
  13. 2004 Plain Dealer – An in-depth look at U.S. drug war
  14. 2004 Angle – by Linda Eisenstein
  15. 2002 Panorama – They’re the LAPD, but their justice is done on the stage
  16. 2002 Michigan Citizen – Drug war theme of new play
  17. 2002 Michigan Chronicle – L.A. group presents crack epidemic drama
  18. 2001 New Times Los Angeles – Community Theater
  19. 2001 Los Angeles Weekly – Intinerary The War on Drugs
  20. 2001 Los Angeles Downtown News-LAPD Deploys Its Agents & Assets

 

Funders

LAPD’s National Project AGENTS & ASSETS is made possible through support of the Nathan Cummings Foundation and is partially funded by grants from Cultural Affairs Department, Los Angeles and NEA Theater and the La County Arts Commission.