The Theater of Tony Kushner: Living Past Hope

ISBN-13: 9780367026745 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 336 str.

James Fisher

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction: The feathers and the mirrors and the smoke  1. Grief pushes outward: Yes Yes No No and other early works  2. Past heaven, through the earth, to hell: A Bright Room Called Day  3. The progress of death in the land of pure delight: Hydriotaphia, or The Death of Dr. Browne  4. Troubling the waters: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes  5. What is to be done?: Slavs! Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness  6. Marvelous dislocations: Homebody/Kabul  7. Underwater in Louisiana: Caroline, or Change and other musical works  8. You say you want a revolution?: The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures  9. The heart chases memory: Adaptations  10. I’m ready for my close-up: Screenplays  11. An undoing world: Kushner’s one-acts and unproduced work

O autorze

James Fisher is Professor Emeritus of Theatre at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is recipient of the 2017 Mary Settle Sharp Teaching Excellence Award from UNCG and was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Theatre in 2019.