Tony Kushner Libri

Part One of the two-part Angels in America, Tony Kushner's epic drama set during the Reagan years in America - now recognised as one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century. Prior, visited by ghosts of his ancestors and abandoned by his lover after his diagnosis with AIDS, is wondering if he is still sane when the angels select him to be their prophet. Powerbroker Roy Cohn also has the virus - but he believes that only the powerless can have that particular illness, and so kicks back against his diagnosis. In the 'melting pot where nothing melted' of modern America, the nation's reaction to the sickness - and its sufferers - is laid bare. Millennium Approaches was premiered in May 1991 by the Eureka Theatre Company, San Francisco, directed by David Esbjornson. In London it was premiered in January 1992 in a National Theatre production at the Cottesloe Theatre, directed by Declan Donnellan. The play received many awards, including Best Play at the 1992 Evening Standard Awards, Best New Play at the 1992 Critics' Circle Awards, Best Play at the 1993 Tony Awards and the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Dramatizes the effects of AIDS on the United States through the experiences of lawyer Roy Cohn, a Mormon couple, and a young man called Prior Walter

The premier American playwright of this decade speaks out about art, sexuality, and social justice

As a young gay man leading a closeted life in the 1960s American South, Toland Polk tries his best to keep a low profile. He’s aware of the racial injustice all around him—the segregationist politicians, the corrupt cops, the violent Klan members—but he feels powerless to make a difference. That all changes when he crosses paths with an impassioned coed named Ginger Raines.Ginger introduces him to a lively and diverse group of civil rights activists, folk singers, and night club performers—men and women who live authentically despite the conformist values of their hometown. Emboldened by this new community, Toland joins the local protests and even finds the courage to venture into a gay bar.No longer content to stay on the sidelines, Toland joins his friends as they fight against bigotry. But in Clayfield, Alabama, that can be dangerous—even deadly.

An illustrated retelling of the Czech opera in which a brother and sister find a way to outwit the bullying, bellowing, hurdy-gurdy grinder named Brundibar who will not let them earn money by singing in the town square

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Angels in America" presents a major collection of short plays written over the past few yeas.

Le ragioni del successo di Tennessee Williams che, iniziato nel 1944-1945 proprio con The Glass Menagerie,ha toccato l'apice nel primo decennio del dopoguerra, possono essere trovate nel confondersi degli elementi con i quali lo scrittore compone i suoi drammi, che appaiono così una sorta di riflesso, esasperato e lucidamente torbido, delle inquietudini e del disagio morale di molta parte della coscienza moderna. I personaggi che Williams ci presenta, come le storie che ci narra, nascono sempre dalla fusione di un realismo violento, spesso brutale e provocatorio, con struggimenti patetici, quasi romantici e non di rado morbosi, da una specie di fermentazione dolorosa ed esaltante della memoria entro un presente crudele, che delude i sogni e che travolge il sognatore incapace di mantenere i contatti con la realtà.