Free Downloads Angels In America: A Gay Fantasia On National Themes: Revised And Complete Edition
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for DramaAngels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes includes Part One, Millennium Approaches and Part Two, Perestroika“Glorious. A monumental, subversive, altogether remarkable masterwork…Details of specific catastrophes may have changed since this Reagan-era AIDS epic won the Pulitzer and the Tony, but the real cosmic and human obsessions—power, religion, sex, responsibility, the future of the world—are as perilous, yet as falling-down funny, as ever.” –Linda Winer, Newsday"A vast, miraculous play... provocative, witty and deeply upsetting... a searching and radical rethinking of American political drama." - Frank Rich, New York Times"A victory for theater, for the transforming power of the imagination to turn devastation into beauty." - John Lahr, New Yorker“An enormously impressive work of the imagination and intellect, a towering example of what theater stretched to its full potential can achieve.” -Philadelphia Inquirer"Angels in America is the finest drama of our time, speaking to us of an entire era of life and death as no other play within memory. It ranks as nothing less than one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century." - John Heilpern, New York Observer“Some playwrights want to change the world. Some want to revolutionize theater. Tony Kushner is that rarity of rarities: a writer who has the promise to do both.” -New York TimesThis new edition of Tony Kushner's masterpiece is published with the author's recent changes and a new introduction in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of its original production. One of the most honored American plays in history, Angels in America was awarded two Tony Awards for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was made into an Emmy Award-winning HBO film directed by Mike Nichols. This two-part epic, subtitled "A Gay Fantasia on National Themes," has received hundreds of performances worldwide in more than twenty-six languages.Tony Kushner’s plays include Angels in America; Hydriotaphia, or the Death of Dr. Brown; The Illusion, adapted from the play by Pierre Cornelle; 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.Among many honors, Kushner is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, two Tony Awards, three Obie Awards, two Evening Standard Awards, an Olivier Award, an Emmy Award, two Oscar nominations, and the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2012, he was awarded a National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama. He lives in Manhattan with his husband, Mark Harris.
Series: Angels in America
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group; Revised ed. edition (December 24, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781559363846
ISBN-13: 978-1559363846
ASIN: 1559363843
Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 1 x 8.6 inches
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Tony Kushner's two part epic play "Angels in America" istruly a landmark of United States literature. The two parts of theplay (subtitled "Millennium Approaches" and"Perestroika") together represent a passionate andintelligent exploration of American life during the era of PresidentRonald Reagan. Kushner peoples his play with individuals who are forthe most part "marginal" in some way in U.S. culture. Hischaracters include Mormons, gay men, men with AIDS, Jews, a drugaddict, and an African-American drag queen. These various perspectivesand voices allow Kushner to create some fascinating dialogues aboutthe "American dream"--and about the nightmares that can goalong with it. Kushner's cast of characters is excellently drawn, butperhaps his most astounding creation is influential lawyer Roy Cohn, afictionalized version of a real historical figure. A gay Jew who ishimself viciously homophobic, Kushner's Cohn is grotesque, hilarious,frightening, and seductive all at once. This character allows Kushnerto make fascinating statements about power, politics, and sexualidentity. Also brilliant is Kushner's use of Mormonism and itstheology as an integral component of the play. Kushner is the firstliterary artist I know of who has used Mormon themes and motifs insuch a consistently compelling and intelligent way. Kushner is, in myopinion, neither a proselytizer for nor a basher of Mormonism, but hispresentation of troubled Mormon characters and his apparent satirizingof some aspects of Mormon theology both strike me as potentiallycontroversial.
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