KUSHNERWORLD

If you don’t know Kushner then you must not have cable. Furthermore, you probably did not see the Golden Globes where Kushner’s masterpiece “Angels In America” won plenty of top awards.

In “Angels” his anti conservative bias-hatred was minimal and implicit. Now, after having succeeded, Kushner seems to have grown some balls. In his new work he is explicitly attacking politicians and their wives.

This brief is informative but I will withhold final judgment until I have read the play myself.

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Welcome to Kushnerworld -- Pulitzer Prize-winning "Angels in America" Kushnerworld -- where heterosexuals are repressed homosexuals trapped in loveless relationships, gays are generally noble and capable of spiritual enlightenment, religion is soul-suffocating bunkum, and Republicans occupy a moral plane similar to that of the Nazis. "You're nice. I can't believe you voted for Reagan," Louis tells Joe, the repressed Mormon gay man in "Angels."

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The play places Bush onstage with three dead Iraqi children. Although the piece was written before the US invasion, the children are victims of American bombings or of economic sanctions. The fact that the sanctions were imposed by the United Nations, not the United States, is of course never mentioned, and the suggestion that there might have been a reason for the sanctions -- well, pshaw.

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http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2004/02/03/trashing_the_first_lady_at_the_art/
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