Gay & Lesbian Literary Studies, U.S. & Canadian Drama - Literary Criticism

Kushner in an Hour

Name: Kushner in an Hour
Author: James Fisher
ISBN: 9781936232482

by James Fisher

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Overview

By setting the playwright in context to his personal life, social, historical and political events, other writers of influence, and more, you will quickly gain a deep understanding of Kushner and the plays he wrote. Read Kushner in an Hour and experience his plays like never before. Know the playwright, love the play!

The book features:
o Kushner in an Hour, the main essay of the book
o Kushner In a Minute, a snapshot chronology
o A complete listing of Kushner's work
o A list of Kushner's contemporaries in all fields
o Excerpts from Kushner's significant works
o An extensive bibliography grouped according to type of reader
An index of the main essay.

Synopsis

Product Description Tony Kushner s Homebody/Kabul was just beginning rehearsal when Islamist terrorists attacked the United States on 9/11. A play about a British woman who butts up against Afghan culture, Homebody/Kabul perfectly takes up one of Kushner s main theatrical themes: the unraveling of history. At the time in 2001, Kushner said, I didn t imagine, when I was working on the play, that by the time we produced it, the United States would be at war with Afghanistan and yet, his prescient play foreshadows the problems, both human and political, that arise when two foreign cultures collide. About the Author James Fisher, Professor of Theatre and Head of the Department of Theatre at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, has authored several books, including the Historical Dictionary of American Theatre: Contemoprary (Scarecrow Press, 2011), Miller in an Hour (Smith & Kraus, 2010), O'Neill in an Hour (Smithand Kraus, 2010), Wilder in an Hour (Smith &Kraus, 2010), Understanding Tony Kushner (University of South Carolina Press, 2008), The Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Modernism (Scarecrow Press, 2007), co-authored with Felicia Hardison Londre). The Theater of Tony Kushner, Living Past Hope (NY: Routledge, 2001), Eddie Cantor: A Bio-Bibliography (Greenwood Press, 1997), Spencer Tracy: A Bio-Bibliography (Greenwood Press, 1994), Al Jolson: A Bio-Bibliography, 1994), and The Theatre of Yesterday and Tomorrow: Commedia dell'arte on the Modern Stage (Mellen, 1992). He has also edited "We Will Be Citizens": New Essagys on Gay and Lesbian Drama (McFarland, 2008), Tony Kushner: New Essays on the Art and Politics of the Plays (McFarland, 2006), six volumes of The Puppetry Yearbook (Mellen Press). Fisher is also a director and actor, has held several research fellowships, and is book review editor of Broadside, the publiccation of the Theatre Library Association. He was 1999-2000 McLain-McTurnan-Arnold Research Scholar at Wabash College, where he taught for twenty-nine years. He was named "Indiana Theare Person of the Year" by the Indiana Theatre Association in 1997 and in 2007 Fisher received the Betty Jean Jones Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Amerian Theatre from the American Theatre and Drama Society.

About the Author, James Fisher

James Fisher, professor of theatre and head of the Department of Theatre at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, has authored several books, including Understanding Tony Kushner, The Historical Dictionary of the American Theater: Modernism (co-authored with Felicia Hardison Londré), The Theater of Tony Kushner. Living Past Hope, Eddie Cantor: A Bio-Bibliography, Spencer Tracy: A Bio-Bibliography, Al Jolson: A Bio-Bibliography, and The Theatre of Yesterday and Tomorrow: Commedia dell'Arte on the Modern Stage. He has edited "We Will Be Citizens”: New Essays on Gay and Lesbian Theater, six volumes of The Puppetry Yearbook, and Tony Kushner: New Essays on the Art and Politics of the Plays. He is also a director and actor, author of two plays (The Bogus Bride and The Braggart Soldier, freely adapted fromD Plautus's Miles Gloriosus ), and served as book review editor for both the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism and Broadside, the publication of the Theatre Library Association. Fisher was McLain-McTurnan-Arnold Research Scholar at Wabash College in 1987–1988 and 1999–2000, where he taught for twenty-nine years, and was named "Theatre Person of the Year"by the Indiana Theatre Association in 1997. In 2007, Fisher received the Betty Jean Jones Award for Excellence in the Teaching of American Theatre from the American Theatre and Drama Society.