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The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures - by Tony Kushner (Paperback)
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Highlights
- "iHo is a vast, rich work of public-intellectual engagement. . . The values built into this beautifully inquiring play operate outside of common dramatic economies.
- About the Author: Tony Kushner's plays include Angels in America, A Bright Room Called Day, Slavs!
- 192 Pages
- Drama, American
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About the Book
An extraordinary play from Kushner (Angel in America), winner of a Pulitzer Prize, two Tony Awards, three Obie Awards, an Emmy Award, two Oscar nominations, and a National Medal of Arts presented by President Barack Obama.Book Synopsis
"iHo is a vast, rich work of public-intellectual engagement. . . The values built into this beautifully inquiring play operate outside of common dramatic economies. Kushner's carefully organized labor of love is a spur to the active mind."--Adam Feldman, Time Out New York
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 intel-lect, searing emotion, and biting wit, Kushner unfurls an epic tale of revolu-tion, radicalism, family, love, sex, politics, real estate, unions, and debts both unpaid and unpayable.
Review Quotes
"Thrillingly ambitious . . . I walked into New York's Public Theater . . . genuinely excited to find out what was on the author's mind and left with enough food for thought to last a theatrical winter." --Charles McNulty, Culture Monster, Los Angeles Times
"At a time when citizens feel trapped in the eternal present of the twenty-four-hour news cycle, iHo's big argumentative poetry screams out that history matters." --Margaret Spillane, Nation
"A humane, impassioned play . . . vast in length, argument and scope. It is attractively ambitious, grappling with deep socio-political change and loss of direction: a huge, generous and meaty state-of-the-nation work wrapped in a family drama." --Sarah Hemming, Financial Times
About the Author
Tony Kushner's plays include Angels in America, A Bright Room Called Day, Slavs!, Homebody/Kabul, and the musical Caroline, or Change with composer Jeanine Tesori. He has adapted Corneille's The Illusion, Ansky's The Dybbuk, and Brecht's The Good Person of Szechuan and Mother Courage and Her Children. He wrote the screenplay for Mike Nichols's film of Angels in America, and the screenplays for Steven Spielberg's Munich, Lincoln, West Side Story, and The Fabelmans. His books include Wrestling with Zion, co-edited with Alisa Solomon; Brundibar, illustrated by Maurice Sendak; and The Art of Maurice Sendak, 1980 to the Present. Kushner was awarded a National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama. He lives in Manhattan with his husband, Mark Harris.