Thinking About The Longstanding Problems Of Virtue And Happiness
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Thinking about the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness
Author | : Tony Kushner |
Publsiher | : Soft Skull Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : UOM:39015038429059 |
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In this first collection of writings by Tony Kushner, including his latest play Slavs!, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright grapples with the timeless issues of bigotry, war, faith, love, as well as tackling the contemporary topics as AIDS, gay rights and the moral horrors of the Gulf War.
Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness
Author | : Tony Kushner |
Publsiher | : Theatre Communications Group |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1995-04-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781559366397 |
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The first collection of writings from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America. Includes Slavs!
Tony Kushner s Postmodern Theatre
Author | : Hussein Al-Badri |
Publsiher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2014-10-21 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781443870337 |
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The book is an insightful and thorough examination of one of the most prominent political dramatists in the US today, Tony Kushner, and his theatricalization of politics. Moreover, it draws heavily on Kushner’s wide range of themes and techniques. As such, it will be beneficial for graduate students and scholars who are concerned with the realm of contemporary American drama at the threshold of the twenty-first century. In addition, the book will appeal to anyone who wants a deeper understanding of Kushner and his major influences such as Bertolt Brecht, and will also be valuable for readers with a general interest in American drama. This book is primarily concerned with exploring and analyzing political discourse as dramatized in the work of Tony Kushner. The author’s point of departure is the concept of political theatre as developed by Erwin Piscator and Bertolt Brecht. This theoretical exploration serves a double purpose: first, it is meant to provide a statement of the definitions and concepts central to this study, such as political discourse, political theatre, and postmodern theatre; second, it offers the tools of analysis by which to read and analyze Tony Kushner’s postmodern, politically-oriented texts. Through this, the book defines the major features of Kushner’s postmodern theatre and explores how he theatricalizes politics. American drama in the 1980s and the 1990s witnessed a noticeable thematic shift from the exclusively personal plays and musicals that once dominated American theatre for a long period of time to an increasing number of plays which put greater emphasis on exploring issues and questions of socio-political interest. As a result of this thematic shift, the predominantly private settings and familial character relationships of the traditional family play have been replaced by a great variety of public settings and non-familial characters. Tony Kushner’s theatre is a pioneering attempt in this respect. In Kushner’s theatre, there is no room for the traditional family plays which dominated the American stage in the 1960s and 1970s. Kushner has found that there is not enough political discourse in contemporary American Theatre. For this reason, he writes his plays to shed special light on the politics of American society in the 1980s, the 1990s, and in the beginnings of the 21st century.
The Theater of Tony Kushner
Author | : James Fisher |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2013-09-05 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781136530159 |
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The Theater of Tony Kushner is a comprehensive portrait of the life and work of one of America's most important contemporary playwrights.
Sarah Ruhl
Author | : James Al-Shamma |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780786484782 |
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Although not yet 40, two-time Pulitzer finalist Sarah Ruhl has established herself as one of America’s most innovative and productive playwrights. She is known for charting complex currents of desire and broaching weighty topics such as bereavement with a light, whimsical touch. This critical volume represents the first full-length, comprehensive study of her work. The text tracks the evolution of her style and aesthetic, situates her body of work within the American theatre scene, investigates her influences, and analyzes her plays in depth, including Eurydice, The Clean House, Passion Play, and In the Next Room or the vibrator play.
Slavs Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness by Tony Kushner Directed by Dennis Garnhum 2000 House Program
Author | : Tarragon Theatre Archives (University of Guelph) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:1315379184 |
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Modern American Drama Playwriting in the 1990s
Author | : Sharon Friedman,Cheryl Black |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2019-11-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781350153653 |
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The Decades of Modern American Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture, media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and developments in response to the economic and political conditions of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major playwrights and their plays to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: * Tony Kushner: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Part One and Part Two (1991), Slavs! Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness (1995) and A Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds (1997); * Paula Vogel: Baltimore Waltz (1992), The Mineola Twins (1996) and How I Learned to Drive (1997); * Suzan-Lori Parks: The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (1990), The America Play (1994) and Venus (1996); * Terrence McNally: Lips Together, Teeth Apart (1991), Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997) and Corpus Christi (1998).