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Homebody/Kabul

Homebody/Kabul

by TonyKushner (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

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Synopsis

Intensely topical major work from author of Angels in America - premiering at Young Vic directed by Declan Donnellan The 'Homebody', a bored, emotionally imprisoned but wildly intellectual Englishwoman, finds escape in the alternate world of Afghanistan, which she exoticizes in her mind's eye with the help of an out-of-date tourist guide book. Then the Homebody's mysterious disappearance prompts a search by her ineffectual husband and her emotionally detached daughter, who arrive in Kabul unprepared for the adventures that await them. In their quest for truth, the distinctions between the real and the unreal, the political and the personal, the psychological and the sociological become artfully ambiguous. British premiere: Young Vic, London, 22 May 2002, directed by Declan Donnellan and starring Kika Markham, for whom the role was written.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 96
 Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Published: 31 May 2002
ISBN 10: 1854596926
ISBN 13: 9781854596925
Book Overview: This play premieres at the Young Vic, London, on the 22nd May 2002. Tony Kushner's Angels in America won the Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award in New York.

Media Reviews
'Kushner's first big work on a great big canvas since Angels in America. This eerily timely work about Afghanistan is comparably mesmerising and mournful, vast and intimate, emotionally generous and stylistically fabulist, wildly verbal, politically progressive and scarily well informed' Newsday. 'What a feast of a play! No playwright in the English language has a more consuming curiosity or a greater passion for language than Kushner... Brilliant' Chicago Tribune.
Author Bio
Tony Kushner is best-known for the two-part Angels in America, which premiered at the National Theatre in London, and won the Pulitzer prize and a Tony Award in New York. His other plays include A Bright Room Called Day and Slavs!, as well as adaptations of The Illusion and The Dybbuk, all available from NHB.