cover art by Lesley Kushner
cover design by Susan Mitchell
“Tony Kushner's HOMEBODY/KABUL is the
most remarkable play in a decade...without a doubt the most important of our
time.”
John Heilpern, New York Observer
“This compelling evening testifies that Mr Kushner can still deliver his sterling brand of goods: a fusion of politics,
poetry and boundless empathy transformed through language into passionate, juicy
theater...a reminder of how essential and heartening Mr Kushner's voice
remains.”
Ben Brantley, New York Times
“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
“HOMEBODY/KABUL is a rich and
intelligent piece.”
Peter Brook
“Kushner's first big work on a great
big canvas since his Pulitizer Prize-winning ANGELS IN AMERICA. 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
“An extraordinary play...a deeply felt
expansively ruminative drama.”
Paul Taylor, The Independent
“HOMEBODY/KABUL brings a passionate, critical
voice to the conversation about world events. In the play, Kushner wrestles with
his own complicated attitudes about a land whose destiny has been shaped by
superpowers with agendas. The Kabul we see here is a place of great history and
great cruelty, where Eastern and Western characters alike search for redemption
in God or heroin or other people. It is a product of astounding timeliness. The
cultural artifact of the moment.”
Michael Phillips, Los Angeles Times
$13.95; I S B N: 1-55936-239-1 (revised version, December 2004), Theatre Communications Group
8 M, 3 F, with some doubling.