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Tiny Kushner
Five One-Act Plays
2011
First Published
4.38
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"A slam-bang series of five plays providing kaleidoscopic windows into the recesses of the artist's fertile mind... Tiny Kushner exists in its own imaginative realm, engaged in the process of working out the American experience without approval or condemnation."—Variety "Kushner's eclectic, wicked wit makes for a great deal of charm and excitement... Hefty political and moral issues dance with buoyant shtick... Penetrating comedy and theatrical strokes light up the stage."—San Francisco Chronicle Described as "a thinking person's comedy" (The New York Times), Tiny Kushner is a series of five short works from one of the most important voices in the American theater. Best known for his Pulitzer Prize– and Tony Award–winning seven-hour epic Angels in America, Tony Kushner shows audiences his talent for brevity with this collection of works, which recently co-premiered at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. The pieces include no fewer than two therapy sessions (one with Richard Nixon's shrink), a trip to the moon, Queen Geraldine of Albania, tax-evading New York City cops, and Laura Bush reading Dostoyevsky to a class of dead Iraqi schoolchildren—to give you a taste. Includes: Flip Flop Fly!; Terminating or Sonnet LXXV or "Lass Meine Schmerzen Nicht Verloren Sein" or Ambivalence; East Coast Ode to Howard Jarvis: a little teleplay in tiny monologues; Dr. Arnold A. Hutschnecker in Paradise; and Only We Who Guard the Mystery Shall Be Unhappy. Tony Kushner's plays include A Bright Room Called Day; Angels in America, Parts One and Two; Slavs!; Homebody/Kabul; and the book and lyrics for Caroline, or Change. His many honors include the Pulitzer Prize, two Tony Awards for Best Play, and three OBIE Awards for Playwriting.

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Tony Kushner
Tony Kushner
Author · 20 books
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.
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