Tony Kushner je americký dramatik, ktorého diela sa často zaoberajú zložitými spoločenskými a politickými témami. Jeho písanie vyniká ambicióznym rozsahom, epickým záberom a hlbokým ľudským vhľadom. Kushner sa nebojí skúmať etické dilemy a morálne nejednoznačnosti, čím núti čitateľov aj divákov zamyslieť sa nad komplexnosťou ľudskej skúsenosti. Jeho jedinečný hlas a literárna zručnosť z neho robia pozoruhodnú postavu v modernom divadle.
An illustrated retelling of the Czech opera in which a brother and sister find a way to outwit the bullying, bellowing, hurdy-gurdy grinder named Brundibar who will not let them earn money by singing in the town square
Angels in America is a play in two parts by American playwright Tony Kushner. The play is a complex, often metaphorical, and at times symbolic examination of AIDS and homosexuality in America in the 1980s. Certain major and minor characters are supernatural beings (angels) or deceased persons (ghosts). The play contains multiple roles for several of the actors. Initially and primarily focusing on a gay couple in Manhattan, the play also has several other storylines, some of which occasionally intersect.
Dramatizes the effects of AIDS on the United States through the experiences of lawyer Roy Cohn, a Mormon couple, and a young man called Prior Walter
The premier American playwright of this decade speaks out about art, sexuality, and social justice
As a young gay man leading a closeted life in the 1960s American South, Toland Polk tries his best to keep a low profile. He’s aware of the racial injustice all around him—the segregationist politicians, the corrupt cops, the violent Klan members—but he feels powerless to make a difference. That all changes when he crosses paths with an impassioned coed named Ginger Raines.Ginger introduces him to a lively and diverse group of civil rights activists, folk singers, and night club performers—men and women who live authentically despite the conformist values of their hometown. Emboldened by this new community, Toland joins the local protests and even finds the courage to venture into a gay bar.No longer content to stay on the sidelines, Toland joins his friends as they fight against bigotry. But in Clayfield, Alabama, that can be dangerous—even deadly.
Gus Marcantonio, a retired longshoreman, summons his adult children home to the family's Brooklyn brownstone to discuss his recent decision to commit suicide. With his trademark mix of soaring intellect, searing emotion, and biting wit, legendary playwright Tony Kushner unfurls an epic tale of revolution, radicalism, family, love, sex, politics, real estate, unions and debts both unpaid and unpayable. With sweeping themes as hefty as its title, "IHo" (as it has been nicknamed) explores the dense and vexing issues that stem from the betrayal of a failed ideology and the challenges of family connectedness. This cerebral mammoth of a play asks what is left when the long-held belief systems that construct and inform one's identity prove to be empty.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Angels in America" presents a major collection of short plays written over the past few yeas.
A beautiful clothbound edition of a beloved classic to celebrate the 100th birthday of America s greatest playwright, with a sweeping new introduction by Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Kushner.
This is the first study to place Jewish refugee movementsfrom Nazism into a wider framework of global forced migration from the latenineteenth through to the twenty first century.
