Tiny Kushner by Tony Kushner

by Tony Kushner

Excellent Book

Genres: Plays

Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

About the author

Tony Kushner is an award-winning American playwright most famous for his play Angels in America, for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. He is also co-author, along with Eric Roth, of the screenplay of the 2005 film Munich, which was directed by Steven Spielberg and earned Kushner (along with Roth) an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Reviews

[Julia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Five short plays by Tony Kushner, but because they are Kushner, they don’t feel short. Includes plays about a tax revolt by New York City cops, Nixon’s analyst in heaven, the last queen of Albania on the moon and Laura Bush reading The Brothers Karamazov to dead Iraqi children. Bought at Strand Bookstore, online.

[Lindsay · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really liked 3/5 of these plays but the ones I liked— “Flip Flop Fly”, “Terminating”, and “Only We Who Guard The Mystery Shall Be Unhappy” — were typical amazing kushner boiled down. I wish he would expand and make these three full plays!

[Kat Hawthorne · Rating 5 out of 5]

absolutely brilliant

[Leigh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Three of these one-acts were new to me, but in the end it was the two more familiar ones--Terminating or Sonnet LXXV or "Lass Meine Schmerzen Nicht Verloren Sein" or Ambivalence and particularly East Coast Ode to Howard Jarvis: A Little Teleplay in Tiny Monologues--that I loved best.

(East Coast Ode was previously published in Death and Taxes: Hydrotaphia and Other Plays, and Terminating in both Death and Taxes and the anthology Love's Fire: Seven New Plays Inspired by Seven Shakespearean Sonnets.)

[Chas · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'd read a few of these in the Hydriotaphia collection, and they're just as good here. There are more ideas in these five little plays than most playwrights have in their entire careers.