Death & Taxes: Hydriotaphia & Other Plays
Kushner, Tony
ISBN: | 9781559361569 |
Publisher: | Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. |
Published: | 12 October, 2000 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
Death & Taxes: Hydriotaphia & Other Plays
Kushner, Tony
This is an odd assemblage of plays, for which gathering-together there is no overarching thematic justification. Because several of the plays deal with death, and one of the death-plays deals as well with money, and the last play deals with taxation, we're calling the book Death & Taxes. But all plays, directly or indirectly, are about death and taxes, so this title explains little..." ?Tony KushnerThis stunning new collection by Tony Kushner, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America, showcases his masterful explorations of form and style. A rich and vibrant collection from one of our greatest American playwrights, Death & Taxes includes the following treasure trove of works:In Reverse Transcription: Six Playwrights Bury a Seventh, six playwrights come together to bury their contemporary and friend, Ding. They discuss and brood on their lives, writings, and loves. Theatre critic Dr. David Nowlan calls Reverse Transcription ?rich in allusion, elegant in language and satirically funny" (Irish Times).Hydriotaphia or The Death of Dr. Browne begins at one man’s deathbed and becomes an epic farce spanning Heaven and Earth.?Karl Marx said that history occurs first as tragedy and then as farce. In Hydriotaphia, Tony Kushner says that history is tragedy and farce at once. Ben Jonson meets Bertolt Brecht in this brilliantly funny and dark knockabout play of the rise of the entrepreneurial spirit.
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