"Mr. Kushner's glorious specialty is in giving theatrical life to
internal points of view, in which our thoughts meld with a character's
wayward speculations or fantasies... He makes the personal and the
universal, the trivial and the cosmic come simultaneously to life in a
single character's bewilderment." -Ben Brantley, New York Times
"An extraordinary play...a deeply felt, expansively ruminative drama."
-Paul Taylor, Independent (London)
"What a feast of a play. No playwright in the English language has a
greater passion for language than Kushner. And to this Kushner adds that
rare quality in American theater, a yearning to go beyond domestic
stories and into the great world of political struggle. Brilliant. It
keeps us thinking." -Richard Christiansen, Chicago Tribune
"This eerily timely work about Afghanistan is comparably mesmerizing and
mournful, vast and intimate, emotionally generous and stylistically
fabulist, wildly verbal, politically progressive and scarily well
informed." -Linda Winer, Newsday
In Homebody/Kabul, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner,
author of Angels in America, has turned his penetrating gaze to the
arena of global politics to create this suspenseful portrait of a
dangerous collision between cultures. Written before 9/11,
Homebody/Kabul premiered in New York in December 2001 and has had
highly successful productions in London, Providence, Seattle, Chicago
and Los Angeles. This version incorporates all the playwright's changes
and is now the definitive version of the text.
Tony Kushner's plays include Angels in America; Hydriotaphia, or
the Death of Dr. Brown; The Illusion, adapted from the play by Pierre
Corneille; Slavs!; A Bright Room Called Day; Homebody/Kabul;
Caroline, or Change, a musical with composer Jeanine Tesori; and The
Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to
the Scriptures. He wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols's film of
Angels in America and for Steven Spielberg's Munich and Lincoln.
His books include The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to the Present;
Brundibar, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak; and Wrestling with
Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict, co-edited with Alisa Solomon.
Among many honors, Kushner is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, two
Tony Awards, three Obie Awards, two Evening Standard Awards, an Olivier
Award, an Emmy Award, two Oscar nominations, and the Steinberg
Distinguished Playwright Award. He is a member of the American Academy
of Arts and Letters. In 2012, he was awarded a National Medal of Arts by
President Barack Obama. He lives in Manhattan with his husband, Mark
Harris.
