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基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2001. His most recent work, Homebody/Kabul, which opened shortly after September 11th, raises questions about morality, politics, and sexuality.
Full Description
The Theater of Tony Kushner is a comprehensive portrait of the life and work of one of America's most important contemporary playwrights.
Contents
INTRODUCTION The Feathers and the Mirrors and the Smoke, The Great Work Begins: A Short Biography, Grief Pushes Outward: Yes Yes No No, CHAPTER ONE Past Heaven, through the Earth, to Hell: A Bright Room Called Day CHAPTER TWO The Progress of Death in the Land of Pure Delight: Hydriotaphia, or The Death of Dr. Browne CHAPTER THREE Troubling the Waters: Angels in America. A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, The Angel of History: Millennium Approaches, Living Past Hope: Perestroika, CHAPTER FOUR What Is to Be Done?: Slavs! Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness CHAPTER FIVE Transformations and Convergences: Kushner's Adaptations, The Heart Chases Memory: The Illusion, A Play for Lovers: Stella, Give Me Meaning: St. Cecilia, or The Power of Music, Into the Desert: Grim(m), Between Two Worlds: A Dybbuk, For the World Must Be Happy: The Good Person of Setzuan, Waiting by the River: Widows CHAPTER SIX An Undoing World: Kushner's One-Acts, And Then You'll Know Suffering: It's an Undoing World or Why Should It Be Easy When It Can Be Hard? Notes on My Grandma for Actors, Dancers and a Band, Strategies of Resistance: Notes on Akiba, The Transmutation of Horror into Meaning: Reverse Transcription. Six Playwrights Bury a Seventh, A Ten-Minute Play That's Nearly Twenty Minutes Long, To Be with You Alone: Terminating, or Lass Meine Schmerzen Nicht Verloren Sein, or Ambivalence Swimming in Guilt: G. David Schine in Hell My Tight-Wound Soul: And the Torso Even More So Marvelous Dislocations: Home Body/Kabul CHAPTER SEVEN The Great Work Continues: Screenplays, Activism, and Future Projects Collective Expression: East Coast Ode to Howard Jarvis, Never Oh Never Oh Never Forget: Caroline, or Change, Forget Not the Unhappy: Henry Box Brown, or The Mirror of Slavery, Pessimism of the Intellect: Politics and Activism, Optimism of the Will: Future Projects
