Thinking about the longstanding problems of virtue and happiness : essays, a play, two poems, and a prayer / Tony Kushner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kushner, Tony, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Post-communism--Drama.

Post-communism.

Former Soviet republics--Drama.

Former Soviet republics.

Soviet Union--Politics and government--Drama.

Soviet Union.

Genre:

Drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

First edition

Other Title:

Thinking about the longstanding problems of virtue and happiness

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 1995.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

HTML

Summary:

"Essays, a play, two poems and a prayer from award-winning playwright Tony Kushner"--About the play.

"Slavs!: Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness is a 1994 play by Tony Kushner, set in the USSR as it crumbles and during its later rebirth as a collection of independent states. The play has four acts, beginning in 1985 and ending in 1992. The play premiered at the Actors Theatre of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky on 8 March 1994. It later moved to the New York Theatre Workshop on 12 December 1994, in a production featuring Academy Award winner Marisa Tomei and Mischa Barton.[1]"--Wikipedia,

Contents:

Contents; Preface; ESSAYS; American Things; FIck Oder Kaputt!; A Socialism of the Skin (Liberation, Honey!); WIth a Little Help from My Friends; Some Questions About Tolerance; Copious, Gigantic, and Sane; On Pretentiousness; A PLAY; Slavs!; TWO POEMS; An Epithalamion; The Second Month of Mourning; and A PRAYER; About the Author

Notes:

"TCG collection".

ISBN:

9781636700243

1636700241

9781559366397

1559366397

OCLC:

792688619