A collection of essays, poems, a prayer and a play from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America.
This volume contains Tony Kushner's play Slavs!, about the decline and disintegration of the USSR and its rebirth as a collection of independent states.
Slavs! was premiered at the Actors Theatre of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky in March 1994. It later moved to the New York Theatre Workshop in December 1994.
Also included is a series of essays - American Things; Fick Oder Kaputt!; A Socialism of the Skin (Liberation, Honey!); With a Little Help from My Friends; Some Questions About Tolerance; Copious, Gigantic, Sane; and On Pretentiousness.
Two poems: An Epithalamion and The Second Month of Mourning.
And finally, A Prayer, the text of a sermon by Kushner given for the Episcopalian National Day of Prayer for Aids, which was delivered at the Cathedral Chruch of St John the Divine in New York City on 9 October 1994.
'Extraordinary compendium... Kushner is drunk on ideas, on language, on the possibility of changing the world' - Larry Kramer
| ISBN: | 9781854592286 |
| Publication date: | 12th October 1995 |
| Author: | Tony Kushner |
| Publisher: | Nick Hern Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 224 pages |
| Series: | NHB Modern Plays |
| Genres: |
Individual actors and performers Theatre studies Plays, playscripts |
A collection of essays, poems, a prayer and a play from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America.
This volume contains Tony Kushner's play Slavs!, about the decline and disintegration of the USSR and its rebirth as a collection of independent states.
Slavs! was premiered at the Actors Theatre of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky in March 1994. It later moved to the New York Theatre Workshop in December 1994.
Also included is a series of essays - American Things; Fick Oder Kaputt!; A Socialism of the Skin (Liberation, Honey!); With a Little Help from My Friends; Some Questions About Tolerance; Copious, Gigantic, Sane; and On Pretentiousness.
Two poems: An Epithalamion and The Second Month of Mourning.
And finally, A Prayer, the text of a sermon by Kushner given for the Episcopalian National Day of Prayer for Aids, which was delivered at the Cathedral Chruch of St John the Divine in New York City on 9 October 1994.
'Extraordinary compendium... Kushner is drunk on ideas, on language, on the possibility of changing the world' - Larry Kramer
Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness features in the following genres: Individual actors and performers, Theatre studies, Plays, playscripts
Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness is available in Paperback
Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness was written by Tony Kushner and published by Nick Hern Books
Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness has 224 pages
Yes it is part of NHB Modern Plays series
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