[PDF] The Theater Of Tony Kushner eBook

Author : James Fisher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 35,6 MB
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0429675984

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The Theater of Tony Kushner is a comprehensive portrait of the forty-year long career of dramatist Tony Kushner as playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and public intellectual and political activist. Following an introduction examining the influences of Kushner’s development as an artist, this updated second edition features individual chapters on his major plays, including A Bright Room Called Day, Hydriotaphia, or The Death of Dr. Browne, Angels in America, Slavs! Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness, Homebody/Kabul, Caroline, or Change, and The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, along with chapters on Kushner’s adaptations, one-act plays, and screenplays, including his two Academy Award-nominated screenplays, Munich and Lincoln. A book for anyone interested in theater, film, literature, and the ways in which the past informs the present, this second edition of The Theater of Tony Kushner explores how his writings reflect key elements of American society, from politics and economics to race, gender, and spirituality, all with the hope of inspiring America to live up to its ideals.

Author : James Fisher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 12,86 MB
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1136530088

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The Theater of Tony Kushner is a comprehensive portrait of the life and work of one of America's most important contemporary playwrights.

Author : Tony Kushner
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,53 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780472066612

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The premier American playwright of this decade speaks out about art, sexuality, and social justice

Author : James Fisher
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 10,86 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781570037498

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Surveys the writings of the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama 'Angels in America' and co-author of the Oscar-nominated screenplay for the film 'Munich'. This book guides readers through Kushner's influences and creations to map the importance of his work in postmodern literary and cultural landscapes.

Author : Tony Kushner
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 15,98 MB
Release : 2017-04-13
Category :
ISBN : 9781848426313

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America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. This edition, published alongside the major revival at the National Theatre in 2017, contains both plays, Part One: Millennium Approaches, and Part Two: Perestroika.

Author : Tony Kushner
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 32,91 MB
Release : 1994-05-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1559366036

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America comes this powerful portrayal of individual dissolution and resolution in the face of political catastrophe. “It’s brash, audacious and...intoxicatingly visionary.”—Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune

Author : Tony Kushner
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 39,1 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Berlin (Germany)
ISBN :

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'A bright room called day' is set in Germany in 1932 and 1933, and concerns a group of friends caught up in the events of the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. The illusion is a play adapted from Pierre Corneille's seventeenth-century comedy, L'Illusion Comique. It follows a contrite father, Pridamant, seeking news of his prodigal son from the sorcerer Alcandre.

Author : Tony Kushner
Publisher : Theatre Communications Grou
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 19,23 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781559361569

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Angels in America" presents a major collection of short plays written over the past few yeas.

Author : Hussein Al-Badri
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,97 MB
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1443870331

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The book is an insightful and thorough examination of one of the most prominent political dramatists in the US today, Tony Kushner, and his theatricalization of politics. Moreover, it draws heavily on Kushner’s wide range of themes and techniques. As such, it will be beneficial for graduate students and scholars who are concerned with the realm of contemporary American drama at the threshold of the twenty-first century. In addition, the book will appeal to anyone who wants a deeper understanding of Kushner and his major influences such as Bertolt Brecht, and will also be valuable for readers with a general interest in American drama. This book is primarily concerned with exploring and analyzing political discourse as dramatized in the work of Tony Kushner. The author’s point of departure is the concept of political theatre as developed by Erwin Piscator and Bertolt Brecht. This theoretical exploration serves a double purpose: first, it is meant to provide a statement of the definitions and concepts central to this study, such as political discourse, political theatre, and postmodern theatre; second, it offers the tools of analysis by which to read and analyze Tony Kushner’s postmodern, politically-oriented texts. Through this, the book defines the major features of Kushner’s postmodern theatre and explores how he theatricalizes politics. American drama in the 1980s and the 1990s witnessed a noticeable thematic shift from the exclusively personal plays and musicals that once dominated American theatre for a long period of time to an increasing number of plays which put greater emphasis on exploring issues and questions of socio-political interest. As a result of this thematic shift, the predominantly private settings and familial character relationships of the traditional family play have been replaced by a great variety of public settings and non-familial characters. Tony Kushner’s theatre is a pioneering attempt in this respect. In Kushner’s theatre, there is no room for the traditional family plays which dominated the American stage in the 1960s and 1970s. Kushner has found that there is not enough political discourse in contemporary American Theatre. For this reason, he writes his plays to shed special light on the politics of American society in the 1980s, the 1990s, and in the beginnings of the 21st century.

Author : Pierre Corneille
Publisher : Tcg Translations
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,32 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781559360906

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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner's free adaptation of Pierre Cornielle's neoclassical French comedy, L'Illusion Comique.