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STAGE TUBE: Tony Kushner on the Magic of THE ILLUSION

By: Jun. 20, 2011
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Tony Kushner on The Illusion from Signature Theatre Company on Vimeo.



Playwright Tony Kushner hopes audiences will be as enthralled by the stage magic in THE ILLUSION as he is.  In this new video, just out from Signature, Kushner discusses the importance of creating the duality of reality and fiction on stage, conjuring a form of "rational skepticism" that leads the audience to a surprising conclusion.

THE ILLUSION centers around a lawyer, facing mortality, desperate to find the son he drove away years before. He travels in the dead of night to a mysterious cave. There he engages the services of a wizard, who conjures up visions of the romantic, adventurous, perilous life the lawyer's son has been living since his father expelled him from home.

THE ILLUSION, freely adapted from Pierre Corneille's L'Illusion Comique, is Kushner's most joyfully theatrical play, a wildly entertaining tale of passion and regret, of love, disillusionment and magic. THE ILLUSION runs through July 17.

Video courtesy of the Signature Theatre.  For more information, visit www.signaturetheatre.org or click here

 



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