Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue: Essays, A Play, Two Poems and a Prayer
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (797 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 155936100X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 276 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Brown; The Illusion, adapted from the play by Pierre Corneille; Slavs!; A Bright Room Called Day; Homebody/Kabul; Caroline, or Change, a musical with composer Jeanine Tesori; and The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures. This extraordinary new compendium contains enough haunting notions to keep anyone who cares sleepless for eternity. He wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols’s film of Angels in America and for Steven Spielberg’s Munich and Lincoln. His talent and his heart and his head are incendiary, combustible, explosive, heartbreakingly vital and on-target. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. I want everyone to read him and listen to him and, yes goddamnit, think
Tony Kushner’s plays include Angels in America; Hydriotaphia, or the Death of Dr. He wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols’s film of Angels in America and for Steven Spielberg’s Munich and Lincoln. In 2012, he was awarded a National Medal of Arts by President B
None of his pieces is exactly tightly argued, but his politics taken neat are a loose conglomeration of familiar rhetoric generally lacking an individual imprint. From Publishers Weekly "If you do political theater," says Kushner, author of the play Angels in America, "you are starting out with one big strike against you. His most cogently argued position is that gay liberation must be linked to a fight against oppression of any stripe. Because God is a Menshevik!" Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. Less convincing is his screed against the Gulf war, of which he says, "No single event during the course of my life
"Talking about "Thinking about"" according to Justin Perkins. This book, a compilation of many short works, is truly one of Kushner's gems. And though, certainly, none of these pieces attains the truly unique, Kushnerian glory of "Angels" (but Good God, does *anything*?) they are most definitely not to be put aside too hastily.His essays are enlightening, witty and thought-provoking, reminiscent of his drama. And though there are a few that I,. "assembling a book, like baking lasagna" according to Griffin Epstein. Kushner (perhaps the greatest poetic/playwright genius of our time) has assembled some of his more marginal works (though few of his works actually are marginal) and some of his most brilliant in this collection of "essays, a play, two poems and a prayer." having read all of his plays, including his Tony Award Winning "Angels in America" two part masterpiece, i have to say that SLAV. Not sure So I am not sure if I misunderstood but I was under the impression the play Slavs! Was in this book. However, upon wireless purchase to my kindle I have not been able to find it :( the rest of the book is a wonderful read (especially if you are a Kushman fan) I just wish I could find the play.