Tony Kushner's two-part masterwork is now available in a single edition to coincide with the broadcast of the epic HBO special directed by Mike Nichols and starring Meryl Streep, Al Pacino, Emma Thompson, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeffrey Wright, Michael Gambon and Simon Callow, scheduled for December 2003.
Louis and Prior are lovers trying to deal with the fact that Prior has AIDS; Harper and Joe are a heterosexual Mormon couple, although Joe is actually trying to conceal his homosexuality. Joe works for Roy Cohn, the lawyer who helped Senator McCarthy with communist persecution and who himself went after gays although he was gay and died of AIDS.
Louis and Prior are lovers trying to deal with the fact that Prior has AIDS; Harper and Joe are a heterosexual Mormon couple, although Joe is actually trying to conceal his homosexuality. Joe works for Roy Cohn, the lawyer who helped Senator McCarthy with communist persecution and who himself went after gays although he was gay and died of AIDS.
Based on a Czech opera for children that was performed 55 times by the children of the Terezin Nazi concentration camp, this tale of two children bullied by a bellowing hurdy-gurdy grinder is now told in this storybook. Illustrations.
The posters and buttons generously reproduced in DESIGN OF DISSENT reflect the power of the image to identify an issue and to move people. Organized by topics such as the Iraq war, media, the corporate world, war, and peace, these images are drawn from sources worldwide, and reflect some of the best work in the field from the 1960s through today. ...
Maurice Sendak ranks as one of the best known and loved children's book artists in the USA, and has been awarded both the Hans Christian Andersen Medal and the Caldecott Medal. This volume picks up where Selma Lanes' monograph of his work "The Art of Maurice Sendak", published in 1980, leaves off, tracing Sendak's life and work from 1980 to 2003. ...
The dybbuk, a dead person's soul that possesses a living person, is an ancient and fascinating part of Jewish folklore in Eastern Europe. The stories in this collection, none of which has been translated before, illuminate the different aspects of the Jewish mystical world, including possessions, transmigration, fairy tales, parables and miracles.
Louis and Prior are lovers trying to deal with the fact that Prior has AIDS; Harper and Joe are a heterosexual Mormon couple, although Joe is actually trying to conceal his homosexuality. Joe works for Roy Cohn, the lawyer who helped Senator McCarthy with communist persecution and who himself went after gays although he was gay and died of AIDS.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, author of "Angels in America," turns his penetrating gaze to the arena of global politics to create this suspenseful portrait of a dangerous collision between cultures.
Louis and Prior are lovers trying to deal with the fact that Prior has AIDS; Harper and Joe are a heterosexual Mormon couple, although Joe is actually trying to conceal his homosexuality. Joe works for Roy Cohn, the lawyer who helped Senator McCarthy with communist persecution and who himself went after gays although he was gay and died of AIDS.
The Mystery of Irma Vep and Other Plays Charles Ludlum A collection of the major work of Charles Ludlum, founder of the Ridiculous Theatre, considered America's most original comic genius of the stage. Both as an actor and playwright, his work was hailed for its originality and farcical wit the world over.
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America comes this powerful portrayal of individual dissolution and resolution in the face of political catastrophe. A Bright Room Called Day premiered in San Francisco at the Eureke Theatre in 1987 and was subsequently produced at the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1991.
Through the intimate story of friendship between a black maid and the son of her Jewish employers in 1963 Louisiana, this beautiful new musical portrays the changing rhythms of a nation.
Kushner and Solomon bring together prominent poets, essayists, journalists, activists, academics, novelists and playwrights representing the diversity of opinion in the progressive Jewish-American community to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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.
Freely adapted by playwright Tony Kushner, The Illusion triumphs as a thoroughly modern rendering of Pierre Corneille's neoclassical French comedy, L'Illusion Comique. Already a favorite of theatres throughout the country, this adaptation offers readers the exquisite wordplay, beguiling comedy and fierce intelligence found in all of Kushner's work ...
This collection of autobiographical essays, journalism, and demented Feinbergian lists charts a personal journey about living with AIDS, writing with AIDS, AIDS activitism, and dying with AIDS. David Feinberg shows that in an absurd world, humour may be the only appropriate response.
Set in Kabul, this play examines current day Afghanistan, its history, its long long-tortured relationship with the West and its current complex political and humanitarian crisis. As the story unfolds the Homebody, a bored, emotionally imprisoned but wildly intellectual English woman, finds refuge and escape in the alternate world Afghanistan, ...
The Normal Heart, set during the early years of the AIDS epidemic, is the impassioned indictment of a society that allowed the plague to happen, a moving denunciation of the ignorance and fear that helped kill an entire generation. It has been produced and taught all over the world. Its companion play, The Destiny of Me, is the stirring story of ...
Here, the Pulitzer prize-winning author of ANGELS IN AMERICA presents short plays about the paradox of living despite the knowledge of impending death.
Autobiographical fiction, written in the form of diary entries, by the controversial artist and AIDS activist who died in 1992. Set mostly in the gay demimondes of New York and Portland, "The Waterfront Journals" portrays a world of aimlessness, poverty, and despair, narrated by a young prostitute who runs away to New York.
Performance artist Tim Miller has performed infront of audiences all over the world. This volume gathers six of his best-known performances that chart the sexual, spiritual and political topography of his identity as a gay man: "Some Golden States", "Stretch Marks", "My Queer Body", "Naked Breath", "Fruit Cocktail" and "Glory Box". Each ...
The Holocaust and the Liberal Imagination explains, without condemning, the responses and reactions of the democratic world to the attempted destruction of European Jewry. Concentrating on the impact of the Holocaust on ordinary people in Western democracies it examines the actions of the nation-state in the light of popular responses. The ...
Despite the massive literature on the Holocaust, our understanding of it has traditionally been influenced by rather unsophisticated early perspectives and silence. This book summarises and criticises the existing scholarship on the subject and suggests new ways by which we can approach its study. Ultimately, this text highlights the essential ...
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