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The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism & Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures
The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures Author:Tony Kushner "The clear successor to Kushner's masterpiece,Angels in America, picking up many of the same arguments about love, sexuality, and politics while adding many more."?Minnesota Monthly"Sprawling, yearning . . . packed with a level of complexity, sophistication and understanding that distinguishes it as a potentially important new American work."?Va... more »rietyTony Kushner returns to his big topics with trademark humor and passion in a play titled after two nineteeth-century treatises: George Bernard Shaw'sThe Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalismand Mary Baker Eddy'sScience and Health with Key to the Scriptures.In the Sumer of 2007, Gus Marcantonio, a retired longshoreman and cousin of the late Congressman Vito Marcantonio, summons his three adult children to the family's Brooklyn brownstone to vote on the question of his committing suicide.The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism & Socialism with a Key to the Scripturesexplores revolution, radicalism, marriage, sex, prostitution, politics, real estate, unions of all kinds, and debts both unpaid and unpayable. Originally commissioned and produced by The Guthrie Theater, the play will premiere in the spring of 2011 in a co-production between New York's Public and Signature theaters.Tony Kushner's plays includeA Bright Room Called Day;Angels in America, Parts One and Two;Slavs!;Homebody/Kabul; and the book and lyrics forCaroline, or Change. His honors include the Pulitzer Prize, two Tony Awards for Best Play, and three OBIE Awards for Playwriting.« less