The Theater of Tony Kushner: Living Past HopeThis sweeping chronicle of playwright Tony Kushner examines his plays 'Angels in America' and 'Homebody/Kabul' alongside all of Kushner's full-length, one-act and adapted works to illuminate his progressive politics, his techniques and themes and his place in American and international drama. |
Contents
Preface | ix |
List of Illustrations | xv |
Acknowledgments | xvii |
The Feathers and the Mirrors and the Smoke | 1 |
A Short Biography | 14 |
Yes Yes No No | 16 |
Past Heaven through the Earth to Hell A Bright Room Called Day | 21 |
The Progress of Death in the Land of Pure Delight Hydriotaphia or The Death of Dr Browne | 38 |
Widows | 161 |
An Undoing World Kushners OneActs | 169 |
Notes on Akiba | 175 |
Reverse Transcription Six Playwrights Bury a Seventh A TenMinute Play Thats Nearly Twenty Minutes Long | 178 |
Terminating or Lass Meine Schmerzen Nicht Verloren Sein or Ambivalence | 182 |
G David Schine in Hell | 185 |
And the Torso Even More So | 188 |
The Great Work Continues Screenplays Activism and Future Projects | 194 |
Troubling the Waters Angels in America A Gay Fantasia on National Themes | 54 |
Millennium Approaches | 60 |
Perestroika | 75 |
What Is to Be Done? Slavs Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness | 93 |
Transformations and Convergences Kushners Adaptations | 111 |
The Illusion | 112 |
Stella | 121 |
St Cecilia or The Power of Music | 127 |
Grimm | 134 |
A Dybbuk | 139 |
The Good Person of Setzuan | 151 |
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