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Thinking about the Longstanding Problems of Virtue: Essays, a Play, Two Poems and a Prayer

Thinking about the Longstanding Problems of Virtue: Essays, a Play, Two Poems and a Prayer

Kushner, Tony

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ISBN10: 155936100X
ISBN13: 9781559361002
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Published: Apr 1 1995
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.28 Depth: 8.42
Language: English
A collection of writings from the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America. This volume by Tony Kushner features the play Slavs!, a comic, mordant and marvelously provocative look at the crumbling of the Soviet Union (SF Chronicle), as well as several essays, two poems and a prayer.

Kushner is an intense and poetical writer, a great shaper of words. -Laurie Winer, LA Times

Tony Kushner is drunk on ideas, on language, on the possibility of changing the world. His talent and his heart and his head are incendiary, combustible, explosive, heartbreakingly vital and on-target. This extraordinary new compendium contains enough haunting notions to keep anyone who cares sleepless for eternity. I want everyone to read him and listen to him and, yes goddamnit, think about what he says. -Larry Kramer

Terrific: his riff on the political and the personal, the theater of the ridiculous and the theater of the fabulous, synthesizes humor and commitment into wisdom. -Publishers Weekly

Tony Kushner's Slavs! just might be the best out-take of a Pulitzer Prize-winning play ever written. -Greg Evans, Variety

Bracing...original...rambunctiously funny...seriously moving...part buffoonish burlesque and part tragic satire...Mr. Kushner's words dazzle, sting and prompt belly laughs. -Vincent Canby, New York Times

Tony Kushner's plays include Angels in America; Hydriotaphia, or the Death of Dr. 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. He wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols's film of Angels in America and for Steven Spielberg's Munich and Lincoln. His books include The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to the Present; Brundibar, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak; and Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, co-edited with Alisa Solomon.

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