The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures
11 Jan 2024Size: 213mm x 134mm£24.99
The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures
Paperback £24.99
Tony Kushner's turbulent epic about a retired longshoreman who feels that the world has turned its back on everything he has fought for in life.
Gus Marcantonio, a retired longshoreman and former trade union organiser, summons his adult children home to the family's Brooklyn brownstone to discuss his recent decision to commit suicide.
With his trademark mix of soaring intellect, searing emotion, and biting wit, Kushner unfurls an epic tale of revolution, radicalism, family, love, sex, politics, real estate, unions, and debts both unpaid and unpayable.
The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures was premiered at the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, in May 2009. It was premiered Off-Broadway at the Public Theater in 2011.
The play received its London premiere in October 2016 at Hampstead Theatre in a production directed by Michael Boyd.
'A vast, rich work of public-intellectual engagement... The values built into this beautifully inquiring play operate outside of common dramatic economies. Kushner's carefully organized labor of love is a spur to the active mind'
Time Out New York'Thrillingly ambitious... I walked into New York's Public Theater... genuinely excited to find out what was on the author's mind and left with enough food for thought to last a theatrical winter'
Los Angeles Times'One of the most absorbing dramas on the London stage'
Observer'Dramatic ambition and intellectual elan'
Telegraph'A massively stimulating evening'
Independent11 Jan 2024Size: 213mm x 134mm£24.99
