Tony Kushner
Survival Kit | May 6, 2010
Tony Kushner has mastered the art of creating theater that is at once up to the minute and timeless; his plays Angels in America, Homebody: Kabul, and Caroline or Change are suffused with both poetry and historical consciousness, and they’ve won him a Pulitzer Prize and two Tonys. His work has been called "a victory... for the transforming power of the imagination to turn devastation into beauty." The influences behind his works are so diverse, I’m wondering what he’s been willing to leave out of his survival kit.
His list:
1. complete Haydn String Quartets - Angeles String Quartet recording (We heard Op. 20 #3 in G Minor)
2. collected poems of Bertolt Brecht
3. Judy at Carnegie hall (double cd)- (We heard “Zing Went the Strings of my Heart”)
4. a recording of Don Giovanni (We heard a bit from a version by Ferenc Frisay)
5. an English/Hebrew Haggadah
6. Steinsaltz Talmud translation
7. Rembrandt's complete etchings and engravings
8. Higgelty Piggelty Pop! by Maurice Sendak
His list:
1. complete Haydn String Quartets - Angeles String Quartet recording (We heard Op. 20 #3 in G Minor)
2. collected poems of Bertolt Brecht
3. Judy at Carnegie hall (double cd)- (We heard “Zing Went the Strings of my Heart”)
4. a recording of Don Giovanni (We heard a bit from a version by Ferenc Frisay)
5. an English/Hebrew Haggadah
6. Steinsaltz Talmud translation
7. Rembrandt's complete etchings and engravings
8. Higgelty Piggelty Pop! by Maurice Sendak
