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Praise for Dan Kwong:
"Somehow, Kwong has held onto his sense of childlike wonder about
the cosmos, and that awe informs his free-wheeling and uproarious
performance."
-"Asian Week"
"He weaves striking, multi-focus stage pictures around simple
monologues about his Chinese and Japanese grandfathers, ironic
accounts of his own childhood, and litanies of the trials facing
Asian American males."
-"L.A. Times"
"Saturated with high-spirited enthusiasm . . . a refreshingly
forthright approach to his often dark material."
-"Chicago Tribune"
"Kwong's humor is warm and loving . . . it stems from a
delightfully twisted taste for the absurdity of human behavior. . .
. Be prepared to laugh, to be moved, and to fall in love with a
performer."
-"L.A. Reader"
Dan Kwong's performances delve into the complexities of growing up
as a working-class Chinese-Japanese-American male in L.A., land of
Hollywood and Disney. Kwong's remarkable performances, a potent
array of multimedia effects and athletic physicalization,
investigate questions of identity and the intersecting effects of
race, culture, class, gender, and sexuality. "From Inner Worlds to
Outer Space" brings together Kwong's scripts with illuminating
commentary by critic Robert Vorlicky. The book includes interviews
that reveal Kwong's personal and artistic influences, his evolution
as an artist, and his philosophical and technical approach to
art-making.
Praise for Dan Kwong:
"Somehow, Kwong has held onto his sense of childlike wonder about
the cosmos, and that awe informs his free-wheeling and uproarious
performance."
-"Asian Week"
"He weaves striking, multi-focus stage pictures around simple
monologues about his Chinese and Japanese grandfathers, ironic
accounts of his own childhood, and litanies of the trials facing
Asian American males."
-"L.A. Times"
"Saturated with high-spirited enthusiasm . . . a refreshingly
forthright approach to his often dark material."
-"Chicago Tribune"
"Kwong's humor is warm and loving . . . it stems from a
delightfully twisted taste for the absurdity of human behavior. . .
. Be prepared to laugh, to be moved, and to fall in love with a
performer."
-"L.A. Reader"
Dan Kwong's performances delve into the complexities of growing up
as a working-class Chinese-Japanese-American male in L.A., land of
Hollywood and Disney. Kwong's remarkable performances, a potent
array of multimedia effects and athletic physicalization,
investigate questions of identity and the intersecting effects of
race, culture, class, gender, and sexuality. "From Inner Worlds to
Outer Space" brings together Kwong's scripts with illuminating
commentary by critic Robert Vorlicky. The book includes interviews
that reveal Kwong's personal and artistic influences, his evolution
as an artist, and his philosophical and technical approach to
art-making.
In the Fall of 1992, "Millennium Approaches," the first part of
Tony Kushner's "Angels in America," won England's prestigious
"Evening Standard" award as the season's Best Play. By the Spring
of 1993, "Millennium" had come to Broadway and won its highest
honor, the Tony Award for Best Play, and the distinguished Pulitzer
Prize for drama as well. Through its epic theatrical panorama of
the intimate and political dynamics that arise when individuals,
histories, and cultures intersect, "Millennium" captured the
imagination and the conscience of all who saw it. Its ability to
deeply move the audience in personal, communal, and political ways
was admirably (and astoundingly) matched by the subsequent
production of the play's second part," Perestroika," which brought
Kushner yet another "Evening Standard" award and Tony Award for
Best Play (1994). Tony Kushner has, almost overnight, become the
premier American male playwright to "represent" the 1990s, as David
Mamet and August Wilson dominated critical attention in the 1980s.
The phenomenally positive response to "Angels in America" was
matched by the equally enthusiastic reception of its young,
politically engaged playwright, who impressed journalists and
scholars with his eloquent intellect, wit, and moral convictions.
Kushner spoke for a younger generation of American artists and
activists whose art is intimately connected to social vision and
"revolutionary" possibilities in the public and private sectors.
His role as a generational (read "national," "liberal,"
"socialist," "Jewish," "queer") spokesman has provided him with a
public platform from which to address concerns that lie at the
center of national debate. In a short timeKushner has captured and
retained a nation's fascination, and his opinions are widely sought
out on a wide range of topics. And, most often, the platform from
which Kushner expresses his ideas is the personal interview, in
which he boldly confronts Americans to rethink, even to reinvent,
themselves as the Millennium approaches.
"Tony Kushner in Conversation" is the first book to compile
Kushner's most significant interviews of the past decade, tracing
his career from its early years to his maturing artistic and
political visions. The collection includes pieces that first
appeared in an amazingly broad range of periodicals as well as
interviews not previously published, such as his appearance on PBS
on The Charlie Rose Show.
In addition to "Angels in America," Tony Kushner is author of
"Slavs!" and is currently finishing work on "Henry Box Brown,"
scheduled to have its world premiere at the Royal National Theatre
in the summer of 1997. Robert Vorlicky is Associate Professor of
Drama at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
How men communicate with each other on stage when no women are
present--and what it tells us about power and gender
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