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Tiny Kushner
Opens: 01/09/2010 Closes: 25/09/2010
The Tricycle Theatre, London
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Tony Kushner joins forces again with Broadway-proven director Tony Taccone. In a quintet of imaginative one-act plays, the audience is repeatedly taken to therapy offices and afterlife encounters. Four performers adopt various roles, including that of former American First Lady Laura Bush and deceased public figures. A British premiere.
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The Independent“Tony Kushner's talent seems to have dwindled lamentably...” Five shorts...combine politically sharp ideas with tiresome surreal scenarios and feeble humour...the cast all have their moments, but Kushner's characters are ultimately mouthpieces, spelling out his big ideas...
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Whatsonstage.com“Five short plays by Tony Kushner prove a mixed bag in this feisty import...” It’s always a pleasure to welcome actors as good as these from the other side of the pond: Tony Taccone, one of Kushner’s longtime associates, directs a versatile quartet in some acidic, fantastic collisions...
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The Stage“The sharpness of the writing...” There is such clarity conveyed not just in the language but in the rhythm and the nuance. Ideas and phrases honey drip from the script. Listening is an indulgence. This is enriched by the four strong performances from the small cast....
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Guardian“Kushnerian ambivalence...” Even though the works are variable in quality, collectively they confirm one character's credo that "ambivalence expands our options"...
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Time Out“Bright, noisy and quick to fade away...” Tiny they may be, but there's a lot going on in these five playlets by Tony Kushner. Yet while they leave you feeling faintly bedazzled, by the time you've finished rubbing your eyes, you wonder what it all adds up to...
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Financial Times“Kushner delights in working through known figures...” Tony Taccone’s production for Berkeley Repertory Theatre is unfussy, with the four actors reciting set-up stage directions, and Kushner’s material resonates with the Tricycle’s policy of engaged participation in public issues...
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this is london“Tony Kushner at his most fanciful and eclectic...” There’s a quality of abstract oddity in his writing that, surprisingly, begets not a sense of cerebral hauteur but instead a humorous and heartfelt appreciation of the moral ambiguities of modern American life...
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